Word: erects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tightly bound in instances much more common. Few realize that often employers are very particular about securing experienced waiters, for example. On the surface it would seem that any man could wait table. Only last week, however, a call came from a boarding house manager for a fall, erect, neat man with a clear complexion and at least two years waiting experience. This restaurateur maintained that waiting is a highly skilled art which can be perfected only through long practice. He said that a new man invariably permits dirty
Preached famed Rev. John Haynes Holmes in Manhattan on Mahatma Gandhi: "He has the dignity of a king. . . . Where do people get the idea that he is ugly? . . . His frame is large and his stature is erect and tall...
...decision of Cambridge municipal authorities to erect a new fire station on the site of the Rogers Building will in all probability not affect the Cambridge School of the Drama during the current academic year, A. R. Lovejoy, director of the School, stated yesterday...
...revealed by the 1930 enumeration. So proud and happy were the 5,077 citizens of Linton to know that an equal number of U. S. people lived in every direction from them that their Rotary Club planned to march the 2 9/10 mi. northeast to the Elkins farm and erect a marker. The knoll's location was given technically as 39° 3' 45" North, 87° 8' 6" West...
...birthday fell last fortnight) "P. W." is big, erect, a typical Yankee shipbuilder only using duralumin for oak, Maybachs for mainsails, the sky for the sea. He does not drink; close associates can recall perhaps a dozen times when they have seen him smoke a cigaret in recent years. He drives one of several automobiles to and from his air-conditioned office. He exercises in his own gymnasium at home, riding an electric horse, heaving a medicine ball, does not chum with Akron's other leading citizens, Firestones and Seiberlings. He does not invite his Goodyear "cabinet" to exercise...