Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind. He has lately been less troubled by the lumbago which was an immediate cause of his leaving the High Bench. Leaving his motor to call on his former colleagues or to borrow or return books from the Supreme Court Library, his step seems more lively, his bearing more erect, than two months ago. This year he has given no press interviews, made no public statements, but.to a banquet held by the Federal Bar Association in his honor on his 91st birthday (March 8) he wrote...
Since then for more than fifty years the composed militarily erect figure of John Phillips Sousa has dominated the world of military music. Although undoubtedly a great director and a versatile technician, he must acknowledge superiors in these fields. But as the inspired composer of stirring martial melodies he stands alone. In the blare of trumpets, the blast of horns, the shrill of clarinets, the reverberating beat of drums lies an overpowering factor in the patriotism of a nation. Of these elements Sousa was possibly the greatest master that the world has ever known. With consummate skill he combined them...
...last two years of college will be devoted to a view of "life in its wholeness." Such a system is impossible. The art of living can not be acquired through contemplation of present problems in their relation to the aspects of an older civilization. Men cannot through study erect a formula for the satisfactory life any more than he can add a cubit's length to his height by taking thought. Education, if it is to mean anything, must equip the student with a foundation upon which he can build the edifice of his life. This can only be accomplished...
Contrary to the general belief, a covered rink at Soldiers Field would involve an expenditure of not more than $150,000. West Point has erected a rink, with an auxiliary artificial ice plant for such a sum, and Harvard could erect a rink to meet all its needs with a similar sum. The Director of Athletics in his last three reports to the President, has called attention to the need of such an addition to the athletic plant...
...Manhattan where, over public protest, the world's largest bridge was last year named for Washington and where a scandal in connection with the sale of Washington seals has already occurred, a project was on foot to erect a replica of Mount Vernon in Bryant Park. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art removed from its walls to the basement Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, popular clamor compelled it to lug the massive picture up again for temporary hanging in its American Wing...