Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring in equipment and agricultural tools free of duty, can own and erect their own schools, hospitals, churches...
...would be a crime," he stated, "to break up this unique assemblage of historical sources and objects of personal interest, and the only way to keep it together is to erect a special library-archive museum building to held...
...Dark, erect, dashing Captain Byron C. Brown, 48, U. S. Army retired, ran a machine-gun company in World War I until he was badly shot up, in later years prospected for gold in British Guiana mine fields. Nowadays, he and Mrs. Brown live quietly on the island of Martha's Vineyard, where summer boarders and the radio provide the chief excitement. One night last winter, tuning around on his all-wave radio, Captain Brown picked up a sure-enough distress call from a tanker aground off Newport, called the U. S. Coast Guard, brought about the rescue...
...equestrian statue of Paul Revere. A citizens' committee of well-known men Selected my model from a competition of ten On July the Fourth, eighteen hundred and ighty-five. The committee, of which not one now is alive, Made a contract with me all legally signed To erect in Copley Square my statue designed To honor the hero whose cry of alarm Aroused every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. Alas! No statue now graces Copley Square. 'Tis enough to make even an angel swear, But being only human...