Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appears from internal evidence and from texts that they were carved during the early years of the construction of the building, that is, after 1088, when the work was begun, and before 1095 when the first dedication, by Pope Urban II, occurred. Originally they had square impost blocks with a spreading moulding, the lower corners of which were laid immediately above the upper corners of the capitals. The convincing proof that these are works of the first period of building is to be seen on the cast of a capital of the Four Rivers where the surfaces of the leaves...
...likable but who seems crazy because of some predominant trait or mania. Botany is the current mania and the character is a police chief's son who, asked to help out on the force because the present captain thinks he might be a chip off the old block, gets interested in fingerprints when he finds that they are like leaves- no two alike. Lloyd took six months making Welcome Danger as a silent film, then made it over again putting in dialog where it fitted. All the big scenes are movement, and talk makes the shorter ones funnier, helps...
Chief Justice Taft's Mother Yale last week marched sluggishly through Georgia; wavered, struggled, stopped in front of a light but savage Georgia line. Spurning the handsome Bermuda grass of the brand new field in Athens, Left End Vernon ("Catfish") Smith of Georgia's little bulldogs helped block and then picked up a punt made by Yale's big bulldogs, ran it over for a touchdown, kicked the goal. In addition he did all Georgia's punting and scored another touchdown by snatching a forward pass. Capt. Joe Boland of Georgia played bulldoggedly at centre while...
...more simple minded may wonder at this action on the part of the Cambridge police, and object that the ordinance was not impartially enforced. In deed, a few days ago one could hardly walk a block without having handbills thrust at one, publishing remarkable opportunities in pressing and cleaning, and used car sales. And the police, as far as I could see, did not interfere with these gentlemen. But one cop took Cohen's circular, and the CRIMSON; says "About twenty minutes later the Sergeant came up from the station and hauled in both Cohen and his batch of papers...
...higher a full-block building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a 131-story building would return zero. A 132-story skyscraper would develop a loss...