Word: erects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer of that letter may be interested to know that Radcliffe has been for some endeavoring to raise money to erect an art museum of its own with a library. This will, however, take a little time, for money does not gravitate so frequently nor in such large amounts to women's colleges as to those...
...commotion in San Francisco harbor last week as the Dollar liner President Pierce glided in through the Golden Gate from the Orient. Whistles screamed. Bands blared. Flags flew. Warped into Pier 44, she was quickly boarded by octogenarian Shipowner Robert Dollar who hurried about looking for an erect, spare, tropic-tanned man. He found him on deck, carrying a tightly rolled silk umbrella, and gave him a tremendous handshake which carried with it the welcome of the whole U.S. The browned voyager was none other than Henry Lewis Stimson, returning from the post of Governor-General of the Philippines...
Buoyed by victory the winning eight seemed fresh at the finish. Not so the losers. Only H. C. Morphett, No. 5, sat erect in the shell. His seven were slumped in collapse. They were hurried to the boathouse. Six revived quickly. The seventh, P. D. Barr, bow, remained unconscious for 30 minutes. He had taken his place in the shell though ill with influenza...
...clearly and frankly in the class with dog and cattle shows," Rockwell Kent, famous author, artist, and adventurer, today stated that his only purpose in demanding the entire $1000 voted by the Bok-Harvard Prize Jury to Marcus and Co., Jewelers, for an advertisement featuring his work, was to erect a Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial "as near as possible to Mr. Baker's Harvard Business School...
...some future date, it is the intention of the University to clean out the Plympton Street region altogether and to erect college buildings there, but this involves taking the land out of reach of the city tax assessors, and other problems that will make such a project impractical for many years...