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...site for the proposed new medical center, Dr. Bock has selected the plot of ground, now vacant, between Dunster and Holyoke Streets, bordering on Mt. Auburn Street. Here Dr. Bock would erect an eight or nine story building that would have, in addition to a 100 bed infirmary capacity, a large staff competent to "combine care of illness with study of its prevention, and carry on studies of the stuff of which man is made...
Later the Soviet Government will erect a memorial to Marshal Shaposhnikov, architect of victory. For the present, the Government awarded 200,000 rubles cash to his pretty actress wife, Marie Shaposhnikova of the Bolshoi Theater, plus 5,000 a month for life...
...Mitchell better watch his stop. When insulted by some Bowery stroller, Gould snaps erect and lashes out with a storm of invective without over repeating himself, "Madam," he has said, "It is the duty of the bohemian to make a spectacle of himself. If may informality leads you to believe that I am a rum-dumb or that I belong in Bellevue, then hold fast to that belief; hold fast, and show your ignorance...
Engineers erect a steel framework of the panels, lay down planks for the roadway and the bridge is ready for use. If necessary, most of the bridge can be put together on a river bank, rolled up on rollers and pushed gently into place across the stream...
...ends. Every such calendar has this day plainly marked. It says: "Eggs will stand upon their ends." Improbable though it seems, so they did. The Press Hostel compound was dotted with eggs foolishly, standing on end. Which end seemed to be of little concern to the eggs; they were erect on either their small ends or their large ends, and sometimes they even showed off by holding a leaning-tower stance...