Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two years of talking about it, Congress last June appropriated $585,000 to fix the roof. While Congressmen snoozed, debated, passed bills and paid no further heed to the danger hanging heavy over their heads, Architect Lynn anxiously waited for a chance to move in and erect temporary steel props. That job will take five or six weeks. If Congress ever decided to stay away for six months, he would tear off the whole roof, build...
Still farther down unshaven, red-faced Greeks marched toward the invaders with fixed bayonets. Near them trudged their women, erect with food and even ammunition balanced on their heads; and their mules, diamond-hitched with heavy loads. Much farther along, the front-line toilers did their work...
...Week with sillier shenanigans than ever. Radiozany Gracie Allen pushed a button setting off doughnut machines all over the country. While Manhattan paid its respects to the usual "Donut Queen," Camden, Maine honored the late Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory, alleged inventor of the doughnut's hole,* planned to erect a statue to him. Placing its Joe Cook dunker on view in its Times Square Mayflower Doughnut Shop, Doughnut Corp...
...When I go back to my country," said Oswaldo Aranha, Foreign Minister of Brazil, last year in Washington, "I shall propose that we erect a statue to Herr Hitler. For it is Hitler who at last succeeded in drawing the attention of the United States to Brazil...
Fifty-six years ago, when Bostonians wished to erect a statue of Silversmith Paul Revere, the prize-winning model was turned in by a 22-year-old, Utah-born student named Cyrus E. Dallin, who beat such experts as Daniel Chester French...