Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birthday. John Joseph Pershing, his 80th. After Franklin Roosevelt had presented him the only military award he had not previously received, the Distinguished Service Cross, the erect, silver-haired, kindly-faced old man walked into his darkened War Department office. On its walls hung oil portraits of the five U. S. Generals of the Armies: Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing. On its neat, massive desk stood a single memento: an old World Series baseball with fading autographs. Quizzed by a battery of surrounding newshawks, he had slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast...
...proposed, That some persons of leisure and public spirit, apply for a charter, by which they may be incorporated, with power to erect an Academy for the education of youth. . . . As to their studies, it . . is proposed that they learn those things that are likely to be most useful and most ornamental...
Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...
...sentence TIME quoted was 90 words but some misimpression may have been given. In addition to asking whether the young men of the U.S. could hold their heads erect if they lived in peace while Britons and Frenchmen were fighting, Mr. Harbison also declared emphatically that he did not want the war to continue...
...Tough, erect little Oscar Penttila (pronounced Pen'-te-la) was born in Finland 37 years ago. Like many another Finnish youngster, he went to Germany for military training during World War I, helped chase the Russians out of Finland in 1918. Five years later he turned up in Mexico, fought on the losing side of a revolution, fled to the U. S. Battle-hardened at 20, he became successively a mechanic in Galveston, Tex., a chauffeur in Manhattan. Last December he smelled powder again, quit his job, went off to fight the Russians in Finland once more. Last week...