Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article states in part: "While the CRIMSON continues to deplore over-emphasis, the football interests at Harvard are planning to erect on the North Brighton playground a football enclosure that will make the present stadium look like...
...broadcast their holy services over the radio or issue weekly advertisements announcing what topics their priests will preach about. Last week, however, two Buddhists- C. Juandoo and Fernand E. Querroy-called on the Commissioner of Parks, one Francis D. Gallatin. They asked him if he would permit them to erect a shrine to Buddha in Central Park. They had with them handsome plans for the shrine, designed by another member of their group, Jules Laget. The Commissioner of Parks was impressed. He agreed to submit the proposal to the Municipal Art Commission. The press got hold of the story, published...
...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, and there was Mrs. Eddy. What's the matter with any or all of these...
Temple Emanu-El, famed synagog on the northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and 43rd St., Manhattan, erected 57 years ago on land which cost $55,000, was sold last week for $7,500,000 to a Polish Jew named Benjamin Winter, who came to the U. S. in 1905 to paint tenements. As the site for a new temple, the congregation (the Reformed Hebrew Society) has purchased the large marble dwelling at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave., and 65th St. owned by Vincent Astor, and upon its ruins will erect a magnificent temple...
...week the incorporators turned to another Justice of the State Supreme Court, Justice Ford, with the petition somewhat toned down. He approved it, and in the natural course of events the "American Association for the Advancement of Atheism" will become an established fact. Part of its program is to erect radio stations to broadcast lectures and debates on science and religion and to publish anticlerical literature...