Word: erection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...another plan would erect a bridge on Harvard property between the two existing bridges. It would permit cars to drive from Mill Street, between Gore and Standish Halls of Winthrop House, to East Drive on the current HBS campus...
...code concerning height, the pitch of the roof, the size and configuration of porches. Yet the rules change sensibly from neighborhood to neighborhood. On north-south avenues, for instance, large front yards are required, thus leaving ocean views unobstructed even from points well inland; the same homeowners, however, must erect streetside picket fences to provide pedestrians a reassuring sense of scale and enclosure. Along Seaside's widest boulevard, the guidelines will produce grand houses with verandas...
Technically, it was not a knockout. In a daze, Hearns had blithely walked away from a line of right hands that double-crossed him and smashed him to the ground. At Steele's count of "nine," Hearns was approximately erect, but the referee had a grace of sense. As Hagler was hoisted on a number of shoulders, Hearns was carried across the ring like a bride across the threshold by one grim man in formal dress with a boutonniere in his lapel. It was a relief to see Hearns walking even unsteadily later, though he bore scarcely a recognizable resemblance...
...site is suburban. One hundred yards from the Merritt Parkway, 1 rush hours from Manhattan, the frame of a born-again Babcock barn climbs skyward in Fairfield, Conn. After eight years in their 200-year-old farmhouse, Advertising Executive Rick Baker and his wife Cathy called on Babcock to erect a colonial barn addition, which will hold a new living room and a cluster of bedrooms. They wanted more space, but they also wanted to respect the region's history...
...Central Park for 16 days, ending this past Sunday—“biblical.” Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, a professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, ventured into her House’s courtyard last week in the dead of night to erect a solitary mini-gate she had created from scratch. My mother, meanwhile, refuses to refer to the display by any name other than “The Shower Curtains...