Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nostalgic to be comfortable. He was jealous of the strapping, benign folk who lived such peaceful lives. "I would have given up everything I had managed, spiritually and socially, to gather in more than 50 years to be any one of the characteristic men of Tegernsee, strong and erect, my throat filled with music." He thought he could best fit in as a grocer in Wiessee, "sleep deeply all night in the room above my produce and ... in the early morning, polish the apples and arrange fresh greens...
...home at this price can be sold at $30 a month, making it available to a man with a wage of $2,000 a year. Dealer organizations will be set up in large cities, ready to sell and erect a house in four days. Landscape gardening service will be available. Later perhaps furniture will be offered by General Houses. Because the houses will be of known value it is thought that they will be easily borrowed upon or "turned in" like used cars whenever the owner wishes. The matter of value is considered important by General Houses, which is aware...
...latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child...
...Ohio State's sprinter Donald Bennett, 22, a red-headed sophomore who took up running in grammar school to cure lung trouble. Policemen saw him running in a Toledo park and chipped in to buy him his first track shoes. He is a "straight" runner (carries himself erect). Last week he ran the 220-yd. dash in 20.5 sec., beating R. A. Locke's 1926 world record of 20.6 sec. He ran the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the world record set by Negro Edward Tolan in 1929 and equalled since by Frank Wykoff and Emmett...
...stage ceiling. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse entered with willowy, blonde Soprano Jeannette Vreeland and dark, smiling Contralto Rose Bampton. Finally came Philadelphia's Conductor Leopold Stokowski, wearing the full black cravat which, with his halo of light hair, makes him look like an erect, dandified David Belasco out of the age of inno- cence.* Philadelphia's Academy of Music stage was set in this fashion last week for the U. S. premiere of Gurrelieder, a choral-symphony by Austrian Arnold Schonberg, most extreme of all musical extremists. No fewer than 532 persons were required to give...