Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fanny Brice, actress: "At Atlantic City I underwent an operation to make my nose conform with my style of beauty. The New York Times remarked editorially that I had had the organ 'condemned and torn down and was about to erect a high-class modern structure on the site...
Belleau Wood was bought by the Belleau Wood Memorial Association under the Presidency of Mrs. James Carroll Frazier, who directed the plan to buy the land, preserve the battlefield with trenches and machine gun nests, erect a permanent monument, place descriptive tablets...
...ever to have attempted it." Ten years of inaction have followed, and the foundations have been tantalizingly vacant. Upon his induction to office, Bishop Manning declared that it would be preposterous to think that the New York which could raise a dozen colossal skyscrapers could or would not erect one tremendous cathedral...
...accomplished explorer, sailed from Wiscasset, Me., July 16, for a two years' Arctic voyage. He plans to coast along the Greenland shore, studying terrestrial magnetism, and will winter at Cape Sabine, returning in the fall of 1924. Under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, he will erect a bronze tablet on the site of the old Greeley expedition camp, where 18 men perished...
...changed from that of a great patriot to that of a great inctician. It is almost as if, in an age of mass production there were no men truly great; but the question is one which the present cannot decide. And meanwhile men of today can do little but erect tributes to the great of the past, and hope that the future may find among them some who shall be worthy of admiration...