Word: erects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Members of the Chicago Board of Trade (grain marketing) last week voted to erect a $10,000,000 building of 40 stories. One member sold his seat last week for $10,000, highest sale price since 1919. That year seats were worth $11,100. ¶Again, a buyer for a New York Curb Exchange seat paid a new record price, $65,000. Trader William A. Scott bought it last week. A fortnight ago the record was $45,000 (TIME...
Three suggestions were made: 1) To build an extension behind the north transept of the Abbey on the St. Margaret Church side. 2) To build a cloistered extension behind Henry VII's chapel, adjoining Charter House. 3) To erect an independent hall of fame. A site suggested is that of the Westminster Hospital, opposite the Abbey...
...that the City of Cambridge has given its official sanction to a Washington Eim memorial, and has placed a tablet marking the spot where the tree stood. "There is a real danger," Blanchard stated to a CRIMSON representative, "of losing our Washington traditions in Cambridge by a failure to erect a suitable memorial. There seems to be a tendency to destroy the traditions and the reputations of our national heroes. The Washington Elm is a tradition of which Cambridge should be proud, and which cannot easily be relinquished...
Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy, proud, erect and honored, bent low his manly form to kiss the hand of Miss Alice Longfellow, one of the three daughters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, of whom their father wrote...
Muscular Anesthesia. In rowdy secret society initiations the novice, standing rigidly erect, arms at sides, is made to inhale very deeply and hold his breath. As his face grows red and his eyes bulge, great arms glide around his chest, like brewers' clamps over a beer keg. Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden...