Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Came the penitents of the Vatican basilica, with holy water and blessed towels, to scour and scrub and dry the aperture. Came a thunderous peal of joy from the bells of St. Peter's, echoed at once all over Rome by 400 other church belfries. The Pope stood erect on his throne and chanted thanksgiving. The Sistine choir burst into the sublime music of Palestrina. It was the Holy Year, the 23rd Jubilee of Roman Catholicism, now at last begun...
...Business Administration, will be the guest of honor at a banquet to be given by the Business School Club, the student organization in the School, at the Harvard Union tonight. Mr. Baker's gift, which is the second largest that the University has ever received, is being used to erect the new Business School buildings across the Charles opposite the Stadium...
...Gentleman with a High Hat; a Lady with an Ostrich Feather Fan. Secure in an elegance which time has not soiled, these two look out from history, nameless, irreproachable, erect. Much have they seen since one Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, by painting them, preserved their finery from the fate that overtook its fashion. Lately, they have been themselves much watched, talked of?that serene lady, that impeccable gentleman:?because a destitute nobleman, Felix Yusupov, once prince in Russia, sold them to a U. S. financier and art collector, Joseph E. Widener, of Philadelphia, so cheaply that he felt himself...
Super-Radiocasting. David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America, declared that his company was ready to erect a great "superpower" radiocasting station near Manhattan, and later link it up with a series of such stations if the experiment proved successful. The smaller radiocasters were afraid of interference, and a compromise was finally reached for permitting experiments with superpower radio under close supervision...
...battering. Staggering up, he fell again and again-five times in the first round, Walker tearing in with Dempsey-like speed and solidity whenever unlucky Barrett achieved a perpendicular posture. Gritty Barrett retained consciousness until the sixth round. Then, after grovelling for the count of nine, he dragged himself erect a final time, only to behold Walker racing toward him, muscles bunched, face set in the "killer" look. Crash-indubitably, the welterweight champion of the world was still Mickey Walker...