Word: columbianization
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...agent for Greyhound, Rubloff bought the famous old Ashland Block, a 16-story terra cotta skyscraper that sunburned the tonsils of visitors to the World Columbian Exposition in 1893. He also bought seven adjoining properties, making 70,000 square feet in all. Total cost: $1,700,000. Best guess on Rubloff's commission...
...crawl on their hands and knees if the pickets began shooting at each other over their heads. Once Dan was fishing in Bank Lick when a beech tree suddenly exploded in the quiet afternoon, split as if hit by lightning. It had stopped a solid ball from a monstrous Columbian...
Captain Sonny Lyell, one of the most dependable members of the team, plays number four singles. His forcing game showed up well last Saturday as he swamped his Columbian opponent in two straight love sets...
Recalling Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase, the Star-Times jibed: "The Post-Dispatch of that day was the Columbian Centinel of Boston, and its conduct is described in five words by Claude Bowers in Jefferson in Power: 'The Columbian Centinel went mad.' . . . [The Centinel declared] that Jefferson had given away 'nearly all the gold and silver in the United States.' And for what? 'Wild land.' Land of which 'we do not want a foot.' Jefferson, it moaned, 'had run in debt for Mississippi moonshine $15,000,000. . . . There were appeasers...
...pushed a pin through his mother's window shade to see a sun eclipse. In 1881 he built a 9½-inch telescope, began making W. & S. famous in the optical world. In 1893 their 40-inch Yerkes instrument was exhibited at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. Last year their 82-inch McDonald telescope was erected in Texas...