Word: erects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell, demonstrating an admirable willingness to continue in his efforts to remedy what he believes to be an artificial state of affairs, has repeated the offer of the Corporation. Whenever five hundred men signify their desire for a dining hall the University will erect it. There is apparently no valid reason why the student attitude should change by next fall, but if such proves the case a hall will be built...
...dining hall next year the attempt to put through the-construction of such a hall before next fall has been abandoned by the University. While it will be impossible to carry the project any farther this spring, President Lowell has announced that the offer made by the Corporation to erect a hall on Mt. Auburn Street as soon as 500 students have signified their willingness to eat there will still hold good next year...
...headspring, which, also, I did among other turns, is an entirely different movement. The acrobat stands erect on his feet, bends forward until the top of his head touches the ground and springs over to his feet after the manner of the handspring; but hands do not touch the ground, nor shoulders, nor any part of the body except the top of the head...
...globe. The British Empire had come to the point of severing relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from where he sat between Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped in thought. Yet the extreme nervousness of all three was manifest a little later, when easy-going Mr. Baldwin seemed about to blunder into a damaging admission. Then and there, the Premier was literally yanked down by the coattails. He subsided between...
Chicagoans throbbed with confidence and gratitude towards Mr. Insull when last autumn he acquired an inland tract on the city's grimy river bank and announced that here he would erect a $7,500,000 midwestern music Mecca (TIME, Nov. 29). And last week Chicagoans throbbed again, including even the strictly business-like Journal of Commerce & La Salle Street Journal, when Mr. Insull explained to the 2,500 long-suffering guarantors of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., of which he is president, how this music Mecca could avoid losing money...