Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton is to erect a most expensive chapel with all the English Gothic fixings so dear to the American heart, possibly including secluded stalls in the choir for the members of the eating clubs. With this announcement came the blasting notice that the undergraduate body was petitioning for the abolition of compulsory chapel attendance...
Press reports declared that Anton Flettner, inventor of the rotorship (TIME, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Feb. 16, Mar. 2), was about to erect a windmill on a tower 650 ft. high with two arms, each 150 ft. long...
...extremely well versed. In appearance, he is a typical Romano- high forehead, heavy overhanging brows, full mouth, quantities of white hair which was once jet black. His ideas are modern, too modern for some of his followers. Not long ago, he proposed at his own expense to erect a statue to Galileo, famed scientist, equally famed as a heretic. Pisa went mad. Nevertheless, he is extremely popular and is known as the "War Cardinal" because he advocated a fight-to-the-finish policy. He is a great friend of the Royal Family and it is rumored that Premier Mussolini once...
House to the Parliament Buildings, dashed a sleigh, preceded by a troop of lancers, lances erect, pennants snapping in the wind-General Julian H. G. Byng, Baron of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, G. C. B., G. C. M. G., M. V. O., Governor-General of Canada, was on his way to open the fourth session of Canada's 14th Dominion Parliament. As in the Parliament at Westminster (TIME, Dec. 22), the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was despatched to summon His Majesty's faithful Com mons to the Senate, there to hear His Majesty...
...same time, Thomas J. Daly, agent for the owner of Beck Hall, made public his plans to tear down the old dormitory and erect in its place a large apartment house and a row of stores. The land, a total area of 31,000 square feet, was first offered to Mr. Wyner for his hotel, in the event that the University should buy the Mt. Auburn Street property...