Word: adornment
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Lila also suggested the four green, winged horses which adorn the Digest building's 32-ft. white cupola and have since become the Digest emblem. "It was a happy thought," says Lila, "because according to the myth, when Pegasus stamps his little feet, writers get their inspiration...
...head, our goblet to adorn...
...unsettled economic conditions in Cambridge, The CRIMSON's policy of distributing the Breakfast. Table Daily free of charge comes to a grinding screeching halt today. Hence-forth, only students whose names adorn subscription lists will find The Crime outside their doors at 8 a.m. The charge is ridiculously nominal--$7 a year delivered, $4 a term. Clients will be joyfully greeted at the Crimson Building, 14 Plympton Street...
They used nylon ropes and mountain-climbing methods to assist them, and planned to reach the lower roof, cross to the tower, which they would then climb and adorn with whitewashed...
Ismet Pasha works hard to be popular. At least 5,000,000 portraits of him, in formal evening attire, adorn Turkish parlors and offices. Occasionally the President drops into a coffee shop to feel the common pulse. Most Turks still prefer to talk about their late great dictator, whose spectacular personal rule has been replaced by Inonii's bureaucracy, which rules by the collective and painfully slow decision of its thousands of ministers, secretaries, under secretaries and clerks. The consequences are best embodied in a popular Turkish word, yavas (take it easy). Exasperated Americans refer to Turkey...