Word: erecting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...defiance of government policy, Hindu militants have vowed to tear down the Babri mosque, which they believe was built on Rama's birthplace, and erect a temple of their own. As a result, more than 257 people have died over the past two weeks as clashes between Hindus and Muslims spread to cities in six other states...
...three-hour meeting, law professors voted 33 to 7 in favor of undertaking multimillion dollar renovations on Langdell Hall, the school's main library. In addition, the faculty agreed to erect a new building in the northern part of Holmes Field--the school's main quadrangle--to house about 20 faculty offices that will be preempted by the Langdell renovations...
Artists have always been much less snobbish about their sources than the idealizing critics who erect value systems on the back of their work. The process came to a climax in the '60s with Pop art. Moreover, since "low" sources cycle into "high" products that are then cycled back, as style, into "low" areas again, the supposedly rigid divisions between fine and popular art are more like a maze of mirrors, one reflecting the other ad infinitum...
Included in the presentations--made primarily by members of a joint student-faculty space committee--was a discussion of whether the Law School should erect a four-story building in its main quadrangle and whether such a structure should primarily be used to house faculty offices or classrooms displaced by the Langdell renovations...
...American first have sexual intercourse?" (at age 16 or 17); "Out of 10 American women, how many would you estimate have ever masturbated?" (six to eight); "What percentage of women engage in anal sex?" (30% to 40%); "What do you think is the average length of a man's erect penis?" (five to seven inches). Still, as Kinsey shows, the level of actual knowledge suggests that the great sexual revolution of the late '60s was vastly over-rated. Of women 30 to 44, only 55% got a passing grade on the test (10 correct answers); of men in the same...