Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose granddaughter married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who lived and wrote there during several summers, and an adjoining house, built in 1820, in which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Ward Beecher and Fanny Kemble were frequent guests. The town not only proposes to buy the houses but to raze them and erect a modern high school. One thousand members of indignant front families protested last week against the design, and the Rev. Dr. Paul Revere Frothingham, noted Unitarian divine, ejaculated: "I am horrified by the sacrilege of such a suggestion...
After reading it very carefully, I came to the page on Religion and I would like to draw your attention to Rabbi Stephen Wise's comment on the "Erection of a Shrine to Buddha" in Central Park, New York City [Dec. 14 issue, p. 26]. It reads: "I wonder whether the proposal to erect a statue in Central Park to Buddha comes from Will Rogers. It is quite worthy of his fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons...
...great alabaster sarcophagus was the most impressive object in sight. Upon it a gold canopy was laid with the gold tipped poles which held it erect in the funeral procession leaning against the sarcophagus...
...Passed a bill creating an Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of commercial aviation, and authorizing the Department of Commerce to treat air navigation much as water navigation, i. e., license pilots, inspect airplanes, supply weather reports, erect beacons on air routes, etc. (Bill went to the House...
...application made a fortnight ago by certain U. S. Buddhists for permission to erect a statue of Siddartha Gautama in Central Park, Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 14) was rejected last week by Francis D. Gallatin, Commissioner of Parks...