Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schumann then felt he had the formula for Table Mountain. He proposes to erect on the mountaintop two parallel fences of fine wire netting, a foot apart, with an electric potential of 50,000 to 100,000 volts between them. He thinks that these wire screens, about 150 ft. high and 9,000 ft. long, will precipitate from the cloud at least 31,000,000 gallons daily. Since the cloud is constantly renewed, winter & summer, he believes it would give Capetown a year-round water supply...
...mother of three-year-old Colin III ("Corky," nominated for West Point by President Roosevelt in a letter to the U.S. President of 1956), observed: ". . . You can never forget the past. . . . But . . . life will and must go on ... while you need not deliberately seek new ties you must not erect false barriers against them. . . . Lieut. Pedlow will do everything in his power to keep alive the fine impression of Captain Kelly in Corky's mind...
Years ago he managed to erect a plinth, as a base for his monument, in the Cobh town square. Months went by; Jerome Connor was nowhere to be seen; nothing appeared on the plinth. Years went by. One fine day a committee of Cobh councilmen referred to the empty plinth as "unsightly...
...ancient rambling building was built by Henry Clark Warren '79, for his home. Warren, crippled at the age of three, was never able to stand erect and even had a seat in his Warren House bathtub. He was interested in Chinese architecture and pottery and built one porch of Warren as a Chinese pagoda. In his day he was one of the outstanding Sanskrit authorities of the nation, and the department of Indic Philology has made use of the many manuscripts in the house...
Mornings for the Biceps. At 72, Bernie Baruch is still eminently fit to serve his country. He holds his 6-ft.-3½-in. frame so erect that he always seems to tower. He weighs only about 20 lb. more than his best fighting weight (175). His clear blue eyes twinkle behind his pince-nez; his lean, patrician face is less wrinkled than the faces of many men 20 years younger; he has a healthy thatch of snow-white hair...