Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next spring in the high Himalayas of British India by the Fatigue Laboratory of Harvard University, in co-operation with Cambridge University, England, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Field work will be carried on for five months from abase camp at 17,500 feet near Leh, the ancient capitol of Little Tibet...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall, one of Florida's two immortal sons is Dr. John Gorrie (1803-55) who won his State's lasting gratitude by making artificial ice and chilling air for hospitals...
Next morning the Presidential party awakened in its Pullmans on the western side of Tennessee at Nashville. There was a short stop at the State Capitol grounds while Mrs. Roosevelt went up to lay a wreath on the tomb of one of her husband's predecessors, 11th President James Knox Polk. Thousands lined streets and roads as the party continued into the country to breakfast at the old home of 7th President Andrew Jackson...
...cost the Government $5,000 more to get the statue from the Washington Navy Yard to the Capitol rotunda. There one hot August day in 1841 Congress in its silk hats assembled for the unveiling. The Navy Band played martial airs. Down came the curtains, and there sat George Washington naked to the waist (see cut). Current opinion of the statue was best expressed by Charles Bullfinch, architect of the Boston State House...
Congress stood Sculptor Greenough's Washington as long as it could, then moved it out on the Capitol lawn and voted $5,000 more to put a shed over it. A few years later came another appropriation ($1,000) to take the shed down and put up a fence. The last artistic attack on the long-suffering taxpayers occurred in 1908 when, for $5,000 more, George Washington was bundled off to the obscure chapel of the Smithsonian Institution where Pressman Othmann discovered him last week...