Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Describing President Eliot at his in augural Professor Emerton '71, writing in the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine," says, "His commanding figure, erect and alert, his noble voice, once heard never to be forgotten, the persuasive authority of his manner, free then as always from all elocutionary trickery, the forceful simplicity of his language, all combined to produce upon us the sense of a new era about to dawn...
Accordingly, he applied for a permit to erect a radio broadcasting station at his home in Los Angeles, from which he might speak by day or night and be heard throughout the country. The erection of such a radio station, it was estimated, would cost...
...drive to sign up seniors for the class endowment fund begins today, it will be advisable for those members of the Class of 1924 who are not interested in seeing the University survive for the use of posterity either to hide themselves in the stacks of Widener or to erect a noble edifice of sophistical arguments with which to dismay the finance committee. The others, who may be anxious to have a safe refuge for their descendants or who may be influenced by some base motives such as pride, or gratitude will thank the gods that for once a Harvard...
...with Goethe, Bach and all the big and little prophets which came before and after them." At Hamburg, home of a certain type of sausage, a sausage manufacturer said: "My plant has been besieged day and night by men, women and children seeking work, and I may have to erect a barricade around my place to keep out the people who hope to get employment-and food-in a factory of this kind." The German Government legalized by special decree French and Belgian francs in the Rhineland and the Ruhr. It was said that this step was taken in order...
...feel that the center of the field should be reserved for those who are naturally most interested in the team and who are its most loyal supporters. But it neglects the justice of the case. Graduate School students at Harvard are notoriously out of touch with the College. To erect any more bars and to discriminate any further would be unfortunate. If the undergraduate neglects his opportunity of sitting in the cheering section, he has little right to begrudge another man a better seat...