Word: erects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulty with the Lawrence Hall area, stated White, is that the School of Education also plans to erect a new building there. He said that it was "problematical" whether there would be enough space for two structures...
...University has attempted, during the past few months, to work out an arrangement by which it could erect a building over the MTA carbarns on Boylston Street...
...agrees that the winds that swoop across the tennis courts are unfortunate, but the organization will not agree to erect any barrier to the rampant winds. It seems only fair that the dauntless group which braves the winds to stand up the courts also be given a chance to play the game. If trees cannot survive in the miserable soil of Soldiers Field, then a wooden fence comparable to those surrounding the better protected football fields would be in order...
Eliot has always operated on the principle that the critic should erect his personal tastes into law, and in this book he lays down a kind of Justinian Code of poetic greatness. According to Eliot, the greatest poets, and specifically Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, have "Abundance, Amplitude and Unity." By abundance. Eliot means that (unlike T. S. Eliot) "they all wrote a good deal." By amplitude, he means that "each had a very wide range of interest, sympathy and understanding." As for unity, "it is Life itself, the World seen from a particular point of view...
Much of this confident reaction was based on the status of the U.S.'s own missile program. Last week a second test model of the 5,000-mile ICBM, the Atlas, stood erect and gleaming on its launching pad at sunny Cape Canaveral, Fla., ready to blast off. (The U.S.'s first Atlas, launched last June, was blown up in midair by an electronic signal after a fuel-system failure.) Back of the Atlas several dozen ICBMs are coming out of production plants in the race to possess a whole armory of mass-produced, operational missiles. "We have...