Word: archings
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...play a prominent role in celebrating the end of the rainy season, were repeatedly driven indoors by a violent tropical storm which raged around His Majesty with shrill tempest screeches until the ground was covered with three inches of water and pasteboard coronation emblems were washed from the Triumphal Arch...
...most deplorable misconception of the average young instructor is that Fate has destined him to achieve the illustrious rank of "Harvard Institution". As if the Copelands and Kittredges did not amply fill their roles of arch-indiosyncrasists in University life, the humble section man aspires, very unwisely, to work up through the intermediate grade of Temperamental Professor and supply the lack of eccentricity among the Gods of Learning...
...glassing in the arches, the former cloister of the Germanic Museum was converted into a library last summer. A door was cut through the wall into the former curators' room, which is now used as an ante-chamber, and the reading room itself has been furnished in keeping with its mediseval setting. Seated at one of the large refectory tables, a full view of the garden is provided through the large arch windows...
...temperature of the fire-pit was measured at 800° F. The soles of Kuda Bux's feet were examined and no sign of callous thickening which might afford protection was found. A surgeon stuck a piece of court plaster under the arch of the dusky performer's right foot. Kuda Bux faced his audience, said: "Anything can be done with faith...
...older churchman became bishop, archbishop and second cardinal of New York, the younger one followed along as chancellor, monsignor, auxiliary bishop. During the War Bishop Hayes was head of all U. S. Catholic chaplains. Year after Cardinal Farley's death in 1918, Patrick Hayes was made an arch bishop. Had not an angry Irish mob from St. Patrick's Cathedral stoned the nearby Union Club in 1920 because it was flying a British flag, Archbishop Hayes might have been raised directly to the purple. But he got his red hat in 1924 and the Pope saluted him as caro fratello...