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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Biggest? Bishop Freeman's dramatization of Washington Cathedral makes it seem the biggest cathedral in the world. It is not Saint Peter's in Rome, the Mezquita in Cordova and the Sainta Maria de La Sede in Seville, of those abroad, are far larger. Washington is like Notre Dame of Paris, Chartres, Rheims, Cologne and York cathedrals?famed less for size than for associations. In America there are notable cathedrals at Mexico City, Santa Fe and Montreal; and in Manhattan there is St. John the Divine...
...John the Divine, on Morningside Heights, Manhattan, is the biggest cathedral in the U. S. Like its sister Episcopalian cathedral at Washington, it too seeks money ($15,000,000), and from the same clientele. Last week St. John the Divine's committee for completing the cathedral compared it with Washington Cathedral: "The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be the third largest in the world, being surpassed in size only by St. Peter's in Rome and Seville in Spain.? Its total area is 109,082 square feet as compared with an area of 71,000 square feet...
...Army Ordnance Association's* ninth display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., the biggest U. S. demonstration of destructive devices since the War. Bombs dropped and banged. Tanks lurched and rumbled. Field artillery galloped and crackled. Machine guns chattered. Smoke screens fumed. The courteous Signal Corps advised through loudspeakers: "We advise our guests to place their fingers in their ears," but only a few heard, having rammed in ear wadding before the 16-inch chaos was followed by two more convulsions, one from an 8-inch Navy rifle, one from a 12-inch howitzer...
Next morning "the biggest fleet of sight-seeing busses ever allowed to pass Buckingham Palace gates" carried the legionnaries to their Majesties' home...
Joseph was a lazy boy who could do nothing better than cut down trees neatly. But, what Uncle Henry, who raised the biggest lettuce heads ever seen in those parts, could never understand, was why Joseph refused to cut down the ash trees. Metabel came to know the reason when she met one day a little green god sitting in the woods and talking to some mice. He preferred ash trees to live under and Joseph knew it. Joseph would never have cut down an ash if St. John Deakan had not come to dinner one night and brought...