Word: erection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortieth annual dinner of the CRIMSON in the Union last night, over a hundred guests, including former editors and other men intimately interested in the affairs of the University enthusiastically approved a proposition to erect a building for the CRIMSON. Besides H. M. Williams '85, who proposed the plan for a new home, W. R. Thayer '81 spoke on "Recollections of An Old Editor," Dean B. S. Hurlbut '87 on "The CRIMSON and the College," Dr. Endicott Peabody on "An Outsider's View," and R. C. Evarts '13 on "The Undergraduate and His Relation to Better Things...
...press, 125 strong, trooped into the President's oval office; they found it rigged up, as one reporter murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part of the lesson was the reading aloud by the President of a statement prepared for Secretary of the Treasury...
...conversation across 3,000 miles of ocean some short-wave channel between 14 and 60 metres is required. A. T. & T. announced last week that it had bought 2,500 acres of land near Manahawken, N. J. on which to erect a chain of "rhombic" or diamond-shaped antennae no less than two miles long, for transatlantic short-wave reception. The rhombic arrangement, already tried out experimentally for some years, makes possible a directional focussing effect and cuts fading, at times of ethereal turmoil, to a minimum...
Lieber Meister. An erect, impudent youngster of 18, Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1887 with three years of engineering school behind him in Madison. U. S. architecture was then on the rise from a period of post-Civil War jerry-building, and with the death of a great and sound Easterner, Henry Hobson Richardson, the year before, Chicago, rising from its ruins, had become the centre of excitement. Richardson's successor as No. i U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Young Frank...
...Poland, M. Delbos was entitled to a good reception, for plans are afoot for a French loan to erect a great Polish armament and heavy industry centre on the Vistula River. Hence Warsaw gave M. Delbos a festive few days. But Poland is notoriously half in Hitler's arms, and long, lean Colonel Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister and player of ticktacktoe with General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was adamant against obliging M. Delbos by so much as a communique lauding the League of Nations. The most that grudging Beck would do was sign with Delbos a communique that "both...