Word: aqueduct
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SPORT OPTION: Try your luck at races beyond Wonderland at Belmont Stakes or the Aqueduct track...
...achieves a tremendous faceted density, that crouched lion of rock. In between there are lyrical tributes to it, as in Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue, 1882-85, where it appears almost shyly on the left of a tender, early springtime landscape, all new green, traversed by an aqueduct (sign of the ancient Roman roots of Provence) and crossed by a pale road whose kinks are tied to the branch forms of the pine that rises in the foreground to bisect the canvas...
...mass for more than 80,000 people huddled in a driving rain last night in New Jersey's Giants Stadium, the Pontiff was up early this morning to travel to Queens. In the whipping wind and bright sunshine, the Pope greeted thousands for morning services at the famed Aqueduct racetrack: "Good morning. Yesterday evening, very strong rain. Today, very strong wind...
Sounding again the major themes of his visit to America, Pope John Paul II told congregants at an open-air mass Friday morning at New York's Aqueduct racetrack that they must show more compassion to the poor and the weak, and return to traditional family values. As a crowd estimated at 75,000 listened,the Pope told them: "Not everyone here is powerful; not everyone here is rich. In fact, America's sometimes extravagant affluence often conceals much hardship and poverty." Moving to family concerns, the Pontiff called for an immediate end to abortion, and more family stability. "Society...
After deducting the cost of canal and aqueduct construction, the net profit for Minnesota will be $17.5 trillion, or $3.8 million per person. Placed in a trust fund earning 6% interest, divided fifty-fifty between individual citizen and state treasury, the sale of Lake Superior would provide an annual sum of more than $100,000 to every Minnesota resident...