Word: erects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existing eating conditions at Harvard," said Dean Hughes, "are certainly deplorable, and I heartily endorse any plan for improving them. Many of the graduate students in the Engineering School should find such a dining hall as that which President Lowell has promised to erect of particular value as a place to meet and get acquainted with each other. And for the undergraduates it would, of course, put an end to the necessity of the present irregular eating around which has proved detrimental to both health and sociability...
...project; the building will go up forthwith if only the students, whose need it is supposed to meet, show themselves conscious of a need. The persistence of the University in forwarding the project attests to the sincerity with which it is being pushed from above. The offer to erect the hall was first made contingent upon prospective interest in the Union's system of club tables. When this interest failed to materialize in force, it was seen that particular reasons, among them the location of the Union itself and the isolated position of the rooms used for club tables, were...
...Cardinal Hayes's plans to erect a home in the Bowery, Manhattan, for homeless men, The Commonweal, sophisticated Catholic weekly, last week reported: "There is no other part of the great metropolis which displays so much of poverty's backwash-tired women in frayed dresses of years ago, old men who capture a smoke from discarded stubs of cigars." The home will be "a place for those who cling miserably to vacant seats on park benches, who sit all day in branch libraries reading endless newspapers, and who, sometimes, when fortune favors them, get a chance to carry...
...Sunbury, Pa., David Ross McCreary, ten months old, crawled to a crock, pulled himself erect, peered in, fell in, drowned in five inches of water...
...curtain figuratively rises, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg stands up and moves a second reading. Correspondents note his erect, judicial poise, wonder how long he will keep cool under the barrage of jeers which Laborites will soon make hot. Racing pencils jot names of major characters and their more and more pungent speeches as the drama plays on and upward to crescendo...