Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work was hindered in Cambridge by the number overcast nights and imperfect atmospheric conditions resulting from dust street illumination, smoke and uneven heating of the air. It was then decided to erect a new station for their work here in the Northern Hemisphere. This new station is located at Harvard, Massachusetts, at a place called Oak Ridge about 27 miles north-west of Cambridge...
...regulatory code in the copper business will have to allow for: 1) a wide range of production costs between U. S. refineries; 2) new sources of cheap foreign copper, against which the Administration may not want to erect a higher tariff wall...
...rind to get level with his men. When he spreads his arms an entire orchestra seems to fall under the shadow of his wings. For a lush string passage one arm will suddenly take the form of a violin while he plays on it with the other. He stands erect for staccato effects, hunches his head forward and fairly plucks the quick, short notes from out the instruments. He takes his crescendoes with hair and coat tails flying...
...sheet music tattered from use, or when they sat in beer gardens singing along with wheezy little orchestras, beating time with their fans. At the Ritz the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers was having its annual dinner. No music was played but present among the 350 songwriters were erect, square-cut old Theodore Metz, 86, who wrote "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight''; thin, bald Harry Von Tilzer who wrote "Down Where the Wuertzburger Flows'' and "The Old Fall River Line''; pink, froggy Harry Armstrong who wrote...
...property. The club has never had a theatre of its own. Relying on the good will of the Pt Eta Club and the not too low rentals of Brattle Hall, it has been moving from one stage to another. Funds are lacking with which to buy or erect a permanent hall, but the remodeling of the Big. Tree pool seems to be within the economic possibilities of the Dramatic Club. The cost of converting the building should not exceed three or four thousand dollars, and would result in a theatre seating three or four hundred persons. The two squash courts...