Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson furnished capital to buy land and erect houses-cheap land but good. The co-operatives frequently furnished the homesteaders and the labor for building, so that the total cost per homestead was kept down below $2,500. Local corporations were formed wherever possible to run the projects, and the homesteaders agreed to pay off the original costs with interest at 4% over a period of 30 years. On a few projects, such as Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite near Reedsville, W. Va., no local organization was at hand and Mr. Wilson had to finance it completely. Size of projects...
...Observed the sedate New York Times in 1923: "Miss Brice has had her nose condemned, and torn down and is about to erect a high-class modern structure on the site...
...Saturday Jan. 15, 1916, lady-like chatter rang through the Victorian mansion at No. 856 Fifth Avenue as 24 players sat down to bridge. Over the six tables presided a plump, erect matron. When the game was over she rose, announced the prizes: one share of U. S. Steel preferred for each table. Steel preferred was $117 a share that day. The prizes totaled...
...Vice President Garner from pious Texas: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the joint resolution?" Placid silence followed. The clerk read the resolution. More placid silence marked the automatic passage of S. J. Res. 21. Not unusual is it for the Senate to adopt a resolution permitting erection of a monument to a Civil War cavalry colonel who was also a great Republican orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked up the prayerful...
...plant filled with chlorophyll, a plant called grass. From one end of the Yard to the other his eyes can feast upon the expanse of grass. From Holworthy to Wigglesworth, from Thayer unto Strauss he can take pride in both those plots of grass that still survive. He can erect a bronze tablet in honor of those brave young blades that pushed through the morass in front of Sever. He can rejoice, too, in the saving that the Maintenance Department effected for the Budget when it failed to order grass seed...