Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women for "social progress." In Memorial Chapel, a tinted window was dedicated to "The Founders" and "their beloved son," for the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fowle Durant of Boston once specified that their names must not appear on any memorials to them that Wellesley might see fit to erect...
...Geneva, insanity and suicide; for him, drink, failure, consumption. Dorinda was first stunned by the blow, then slowly forged hard. She wandered in New York, fell (arbitrarily) into good hands, was disembarrassed of her child, went back to Pedlar's Mill with her secret intact, her spirit erect. She beat back the broom sedge, brought prosperity from barren ground. She beat back memory, married out of respect, and for convenience, gained a strong contentment without love. At 50, hale and evenminded, she had only pity left for the dying Jason. As from an eminence hard won, she saw lives...
...found only in river beds (from drowning-infrequent), and in caves. Seven early types have been discovered: ¶Pithecanthropus erectus* A skull cap, thigh bone and some teeth were found in Java. They are probably not less than 500,000 years old. Study indicates that the creature walked partially erect, had a brain volume about half way between man and the gorilla. The skull recently found at Taungs, South Africa, is reported as of this general type. ¶Homo heidelbergensis. Two jaws found near Heidelberg are probably about 400,000 years old. They are apelike, with manlike teeth. ¶Eoanthropus...
...inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire mesh. From time to time, the monsters exchanged signs and left the bottom, risingly slowly and erect like dead fish on hooks. At the surface, they clambered to the bosom of their parent-the S.S. Arcturus-shed the globes from their heads, burst out talking-Explorer William Beebe to his associate Prof. W. K. Gregory-about the submarine scene they had been observing. Also last week, inhabitants...
...Presbyterian General Assembly, succeeding Dr. Macartney, signifying truce. The General Assembly set to work: An overture to excind from the Church the liberally inclined Presbytery of New York was withdrawn. Resolutions for the Volstead Act, against crime, were passed. Unanimous encouragement was given to a plan to erect a magnificent church in Washington to be the centre of the faith. Said Mr. Bryan: "It is a great pleasure to endorse something that will pass this Assembly unanimously." He added that he had had two residences at the Capital as well as "frequently anticipated ones." Will H. Hayes, elder, reported prog...