Word: erects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like most of the State-supported universities, Cornell began with the Morrill Act of 1862, a Federal land-grant law which afforded sites to all States with gumption sufficient to erect their own places of higher education. The youngest member of the New York State Senate in 1864 was Andrew Dickson White, then 32. Among the elder Senators was a man whom Senator White described as "tall, spare and austere; with a kindly eye, saying little and that dryly. He did not appear unamiable but there seemed in him an aloofness; this was Ezra Cornell...
...Hoover announced his solution of the boundary dispute. It provided: 1) Chile to retain Arica and its nitrate fields, Peru to take Tacna with its vineyards; 2) Chile to pay Peru six million dollars; to deliver all government buildings in Tacna to Peru without cost; 3) both nations to erect jointly a monument on the morro of Arica to commemorate the peaceful settlement of the dispute...
...erect a temporary roof upon the conclusion of the first floor would therefore necessitate a large amount of steel, to bear the strain that will now be undertaken by the permanent trusses. The cost of a temporary roof over the first floor was estimated by the architects at $46,000, a figure which was unusually large because of the expensive material that must be included in even such a temporary structure...
Meanwhile the ghosts of former days hover anxiously over the heritage of three centuries in sullen defiance of the modern strata on the avenue. Courtiers pass but the grandeur of tradition still holds its grip upon their modern descendants. Modern methods of artificial duplication serve sufficiently to erect a set upon which these youthful actors may display their talents, such as they are, and gratify the eager ambition of parents to whose benefit the family shirt may now be waved advantageously. Capitalists give till it hurts in this new phase of war on the social front, while the first line...
...decision to erect the steel stands ends a problem which has been current for two years since the temporary wooden structures were condemned by the Building Commission. Since then three alternatives have been open to the Athletic authorities, namely: to fill in the open end with concrete stands; to erect temporary steel structures; and to build permanent steel stands...