Word: erects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the War Department forbade the sort of interment that Mrs. Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...appearance he is slim, erect, austere. Under shaggy grey brows, his blue eyes can snap and glare; beneath a grey mustache are lips that can set more grimly than any in the Senate. Before the oil investigations he dressed without care; since then he is trimly tailored and tonsured...
...concludes a period of conjecture and doubt that was far from optimistic. The needs of the Biology Department have long been inadequately satisfied, but for many years there was no apparent attempt to alleviate the distressing conditions. Last year it was announced that definite steps were being taken to erect a biological institute, and the prospect was brighter. But a year elapsed and nothing happened, and it was not until the present announcement that the new project became a certainty...
...most important liquid assets which the secondary school can assist him to acquire. His permanent intellectual capital consists not in a completed educational structure but in the foundation which he has built broad enough and strong enough to carry either the superstructure that he has planned and begun to erect or even a different type of edifice which he may later find better suited to his needs and desires
Brooklyn is the biggest and homeliest (in every sense of the word) borough of New York City (population circa 2,300,000). It has just begun to erect skyscrapers, is jeered at by many Manhattanites who used to live there, has been variously entitled the bedroom of New York City, a group of small towns, "the city of churches," and New York's "rive gauche" (left bank). But Brooklyn has an esthetic tradition all its own. There lived Poet Walt Whitman, Critic James Gibbons Huneker, Artist Joseph Pennell. There in the picturesque "Brooklyn Heights" section overlooking New York Harbor...