Word: erects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duquesa de Alba, imperially slim, the incarnation of privilege erect against change, looks out of a cloudy canvas. A black mantilla frames her small face; beads hang from her wrist; she holds...
...prices. But until recently, J. P. Morgan & Co. merely put some inexpensive iron fire-escapes on the Mills Building and waited for lower building costs. Evidently those have come into sight, for J. P. Morgan & Co. have now transferred the leasehold to the Equitable Trust Co., which intends to erect on the Mills Building site a 34-story office building. Construction will start in the spring of 1926, and should be completed by the spring...
...small one) the older kind of "Oxford culture" is therefore the fashion, and, in spite of the fact that America has the finest indigenous architecture in the world and that Gothic is the least suitable style of building for modern domestic purposes, there is now a marked tendency to erect elaborate imitations of England's more famous colleges in American Universities. The assumption appears to be that culture is a kind of moss which grows spontaneously where a suitably medieval building offers the appropriate soil. London Nation...
...before him. Through the first lap, while his competitors jostled for position, Nurmi kept in the rear; when the others had settled into a file, he jogged into the lead. Higgins, onetime Columbia University star, passed him at the 600-yard post; Nurmi paid no attention. He ran very erect, pulled his legs up in front of him like levers operated by a machine, as efficient as an airplane motor. Ray was now running third; three and a half laps from the finish, he jumped the field, passed Nurmi, Higgins, opened up a lead of ten yards. The crowd roared...
With the same success that Professor Baker had, the manager of the Harvard Dining Halls for several years fought to have the ancient and overequipped Memorial Hall abandoned. In its place he desired an up to date, first-class cafeteria with a modern restaurant. He proposed that the college erect a two-story building, on or near Harvard Square. The ground floor was to be a cafeteria, similar to the Splendid, the second floor was to be a well furnished restaurant. His efforts were rewarded by refusals, coupled with the recommendation that the cafeteria, which was disliked by the President...