Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 670 acres have been set aside in the southern part of the city, and a $2,000,000 stadium is already two-thirds erected on the ground; 24 nations and many states will be represented. Citizens have subscribed $3,000,000 for the affair and the state has appropriated $750,000; seven or eight other states will erect buildings costing $75,000 to $150,000, and the three Pacific Coast states are planning a joint exhibit and building costing $1,500,000. Mayor Kendrick announced that 170 organizations of many kinds had already arranged to hold their annual sessions...
...Kaiser greeted me vivaciously and seemed possessed of all his pre-War vigor. . . . His handsome white beard becomes him well, and he walks with the erect alertness of a man in good health He still retains all of his old dignity. It is ridiculous to picture him as 'the woodsman of Doom.' He is not the sort of man to chop down trees...
...National Woodrow Wilson Memorial Association, which has been planning to raise $5,500,000 to erect a Wilson Memorial University across the Potomac from Washington...
...will cast you an iron house, with a cast-iron bathtub upstairs and a cast-iron stove in the kitchen. Within 50 miles of our works, we will erect the whole eleven tons of iron for you at a cost of only ?425 ($2,125). You will find the rooms nine feet high, with the living room, kitchen, larder and coal room on the first floor, and three bedrooms and a bath on the second. Fireplaces and a hot-water heating system are provided. Many of our cast-iron tanks are still in use, unpainted, after 100 years...
...Mexico, miners prospecting the Chihuahua Mountains found, intact in a hidden cave, a group of skeletons in sitting postures, arms crossed over knees. Measured from crown to heel they sat five to six feet high; erect they would have stood ten to twelve feet. Anthropologists set off to examine these giants, hoping to clear the doubtful origin of the Chihuahua Indians, a rangy race...