Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the mantelpiece in the Officers' Club, there hangs a photograph showing several of its War-veteran members standing with their flag before the Empire's most sacred military shrine?the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Proudly erect and tall beside the flag bearer stands Captain Barker, wearing seven decorations, including the D. S. O. Last week in Andover the Captain's former valet, one Wrigley, exclaimed incredulously: "Why the Captain always left his razors and soap-filled brush for me to put away. And I used to take his boy for walks! A little tyke he was, and always talking about...
...problem would not be solved by merely deciding to erect new buildings. There is certainly no room for additional structures in the Yard, and the few plots available immediately to the north have the double disadvantage of inaccessibility and of opposition to the projected growth of the college towards the south. The alternative of erecting a group of buildings suitable for class purposes central to the group of dormitories to be installed near the river-and leaving the Yard to the exclusive use of the Freshmen has the advantage of helping to unify both these groups. But the distance factor...
...present the "P. E." has put a small army of engineers in Palestine, to build dams, erect power stations and thus filch electricity from the biblical River Jordan. Since Pinchas Rutenberg is first and foremost a Zionist, the "P. E." is keeping a careful motion picture record of the Jordan "before and after." In so far as possible the engineering staff is kept 100% Hebrew, but Arabs are used for pick and shovel work...
Fortunately there are other staircases in the Latjeran. Cardinal Gasparri, Signor Mussolini and their suites entered not all kneeling, but militantly erect. They met and faced each other across a massive table, 16 feet long and 4 feet wide, the top hewn from a single log of deep red narra wood from the Philippines. Present at the signing were no guests, no newspapermen, no servants, and only two photographers who scuttled out as soon as they had snapped the awesome scene. The door was then locked and Papal Attorney Pacelli read solemnly the text of the Italo-Papal agreement which...
...gentle rustle of satisfaction animated the starched silks of the ladies of the Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) Baptist Church when the erect, square-shouldered law clerk strode down the aisle to take his seat. "There," they whispered to one another, "is the Good Young Man of our church." And later, when they walked home with their children, they were apt to say: "Winfield, I wish you wouldn't keep your hands in your pockets. He never does."Or, again:"Ulysses, don't hang your head. Stand up straight, as he does...