Word: erects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Worcester Redevelopment Authority asked State Mutual, the nation's 27th largest life insurance company (assets: $1.2 billion), to help rebuild the city's blighted Laurel-Clayton section. Plumley decided to erect 430 units of low-and middle-income housing and invested $11.8 million of company loan and equity money in the project. He hired Architect Benjamin Thompson of Cambridge and told him to design a complex that would be "more than just another public-housing project...
...Good evening. This is Erect Severehead with a cogent news analysis from the nation's capitol...A hushed hush pervades the corridors of power. Great men whisper whispers while a stunned capitol awaits. Even the cherry blossoms along the Potomac seem to sense the magnitude. And magnitude there is. Yet magnitude there has been before, and the nation has survived. A mood of cautious optimism surged forward just at dusk. Then set the age-old sun behind these edifices of reason, and gloom once more descended. Yet gloom there has been, and in the end the nation has survived...Still...
...curtain opens on six squiggled screens all in a row, that begin to sway alternately back and forth, by some mysterious support just barely maintaining their balance. Magically the fantasy fence stands erect and splits apart like sliding doors unearthing a dancer in the expected void. Like a movie where superimposition pops a new figure in view out of nothingness, the stage gradually becomes blocked in with one, two, and sometimes six dancers. Even with their skill of wheel-like locomotion, Russia's Moisey dancers could not have oiled these with any more slipperiness or spontaneity...
...that could be usefully abandoned...(also) it has involved large investments of public funds in broadcasting ventures...It is significant that countries which have become important bases for American propaganda transmitters include Portugal, for Radio Free Europe; Spain and Taiwan, for Radio Liberty. In each case, the right to erect our transmitters has been part of a complex relationship involving military...
...less than 10% of Hurst's students failed to complete each semester. Members of last year's graduating class were accepted at colleges from the University of Illinois to Howard to Berkeley; all 115 graduates of the various nursing programs have jobs. Meanwhile the trustees voted to erect a modern, block-long $26 million building into which the college moved last spring...