Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Californians, Glenn Wessels and Sidney Joseph, have actually seen the completed statue. It is a standing St. Francis, with head bowed and face in the deep shadow of a cowl. Friends of the sculptor busily circulate the rumor that the Italian Government is anxious to buy it, to erect in Assisi...
Edward Bausch, 78, carries himself erect, still golfs and bowls. He founded Rochester's Germania Bowling Club in a brewer's garden, misses few of their meetings. His golf crony for 38 years has been Eastman's President William G. Stuber, 68, who says: "Ed Bausch is the finest type of man I have ever met. His interests are broad, including science, art, music, sports and charitable work...
...predicament of secondary education in America is the inevitable outcome of the heedless materialism that characterized the twenties, a materialism accompanied by a expanding complex that blinded public educators to the fundamentals of education. The motives which prompted communities to erect palatial surroundings for the secondary school system were doubtless admirable, but they tended automatically toward the neglect of the standards of teaching, and they were expensive. If the first of these effects has, by its lesser concreteness, been concealed from public attention, the second has been painfully obvious. For the long term loans which made the physical improvements possible...
Although this is probably true of the average college student, the huge vagueness of his ideal in its undoing. He is as unpractical as any young intellectual who voted for Norman Thomas, honestly inspired by a shadowy Utopianism. The same lack of practically applies to the conference. They would erect ideals and plan remedies for a distant future of which they have no conception, forgetting how useless it is to reform something that does not exist and may never exist. Overestimating the influence of the university on society they ignore that society, and hopefully strive to establish theories...
...Sinaia Palace, where the new Rumanian Cabinet received their seals and swore fealty to King Carol last week, Premier Maniu seemed to end his personal feud with the scapegrace monarch in these ringing words: "We will work to consolidate the Throne! We will erect a protecting wall about...