Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busiest of U. S. feminists is Dr. Woolley.* To Mt. Holyoke girls her principles (uttered firmly as she stands erect and impressive in academic gown at morning chapel) are well known. Mt. Holyokers disrespectfully pronounce them "Poise, Poipose and Poiserverance." And they know that a prime tenet of Dr. Woolley's philosophy of Feminism is this: no lady drinks intoxicants. Therefore, few of her students have ever been explicitly dropped for tippling. Before female smoking became commonplace the college had no official rule against it-it was inconceivable that a lady should smoke...
...York City did not get its new water supply unconditionally. Before it may build dams for diversion it must erect plants at Port Jervis to purify sewage and eliminate industrial waste pouring into the Delaware. Also if the river drops below a specified level at Trenton, New York must release a part of its impounded supply. On the East Branch will be constructed an $18,700,000 dam from which a tunnel big enough to drive an automobile in will be blasted 22 mi. through solid mountain rock to link with the present Catskill system. Another $7,200,000 reservoir...
...eightmile, double-track, standard-gauge rail line from Boulder City down to the canyon, to the dam site. 4) Blast out of solid rock in the canyon walls four tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert temporarily the Colorado's flow 4.000 ft. around the dam site. 5) Erect a temporary dam upstream to turn the river into the tunnels and another downstream to stop backwash. Only then will the bed of the Colorado be laid bare and dry to receive the foundation, 600 ft. thick, of Hoover Dam. Power to operate all machinery must be led in from...
...Budapest's District Court, asked for an ejectment order against Lodger Talor Bela Nager. Objection: "Noisy and dirty habits" of Lupus, Lodger Nager's Alsatian dog. Defending counsel pleaded for closer scrutiny of the facts: "I ask that Lupus, who is now sitting with his ears erect and his tail wagging outside the door, eagerly awaiting a chance to clear his character, be summoned as a witness." The Court smiled shrewdly, rejected the plea. "It is impossible," said the Court, "to administer the oath even to the most intelligent wolf...
...memorial to Harvard's World War dead would undoubtedly be a "disgrace to the Harvard Corporation and to all other Harvard men connected with this cause." Yet if "to use the fund for any other memorial would be a breach of trust," it would be still more futile to erect a memorial whose significance would be lost to the great proportion of those for whom it is intended...