Word: atop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Custom again struck the unflinching, unbending Robert Gibsons a rude blow last week. They are a middle-aged couple who live at Tappan, N. Y., a New York village atop the Hudson River Palisades, just north of the New Jersey boundary...
...Early awake and lay long atop my blankets feeling the steamy heat of a day that forms a most proper setting for the oppressive tasks of the examination period. From outside the noise of trucks and busses passing along toward the Square giving the effect of a symphony played with sledge-hammers upon an old-fashioned stove. The small chatter of the waitresses on their way to the House dining-rooms sounds like the uproar of an army. The neighbor's morning shower through the firedoor a veritable Niagara. Lord, how wise was the philosopher who said...
...Atop Kudan Hill, in the heart of Tokyo stands the famed Yasukuni shrine. There last week 3,000 Japanese stood in solem silence as lanterns were dimmed an Shinto priests, carrying a small ark, wound their way behind a military band through the courtyard to the main Temple...
Next to removing the Liberty Bell from Independence Hall or the fat statue of William Penn from atop the City Hall, the most preposterous suggestion to any Philadelphian would be that Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) would rise from its great 12-story brick and steel nest where it prints 17,500,000 magazines every month*, ruffle its tail feathers and waddle away to another State...
From his ten-room apartment atop Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital last winter Henry Latham Doherty dispatched an offer to settle a stockholders' suit. To his Cities Service Co. he would donate $1,250,000, pay the opposing attorneys' fee, but under no conditions admit "any remissness" (TIME, Feb. 15). Mr. Doherty thereby concocted a formula which other rich men, suspected of remissness by their past or present stockholders, could readily adapt to their own needs. Last week Albert Henry Wiggin, boomtime head of Chase National Bank, offered $2,000,000 to settle stockholders' actions brought...