Word: erects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holyoke, at small South Hadley, Mass. (pop. 6,773), last week began its 34th year under the presidency of Mary Emma Woolley, 71, famed feminist and warrior for peace who crowned her labors in 1932 as the only U. S. woman delegate to the unsuccessful Geneva Disarmament Conference. Standing erect and impressive in academic gown before 226 freshmen and 704 upperclassmen, large, florid President Woolley announced: "Cynicism and pessimism are oldfashioned, as oldfashioned, I suspect, as human nature itself...
Last year the society decided to erect a plaque to President Eliot to be placed by the door of Mr. Eliot's College room In Holworthy. It was also planned to continue the practice of printing the names of the occupants of the rooms in the Yard Halls and to complete the present rolls which are installed outside the doors...
When the President finally drove up to the White House with his daughter Anna and Louis McHenry Howe he did not return to the comfortable home which he had left. Before his departure he told the country that he had no fear that builders would erect "a replica of the Kremlin" on the White House grounds merely because he had given them authority to make modest alterations in the White House offices during his absence. When he returned there was nothing left standing save three of those offices' outer walls, and during his first night in the White House...
...silver will, after they have given it up, receive $100,000,000 in cash to spend or invest. This will have an inflationary effect like all the other hundreds of millions that the Government is paying shipyards to build battleships, farmers to reduce crops, laborers to erect public works, jobless to stay alive. So the nationalization of silver is inflationary but only a thimbleful in a big bucket of inflationary Government expenditures...
...goes to bed. When he talks about his work his deep-set blue eyes burn with an icy fire. He walks prodigious distances through the city streets. His most valued friends are the New York Public Library's somnolent pigeons. A life-long bachelor, Dr. Tesla is tall, spare, erect, parchment-skinned, beak-nosed. The mustache he once wore is gone...