Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most magnificent was the square (225 x 225 ft.) "Hall of 100 Columns." Artaxerxes completed this, Dr. Herzfeld discovered six months ago. Atop each fluted column was a pair of carved bulls athwart which lay a huge cedar ceiling beam. Windows and niches broke up the long walls; painted carvings enlivened them. Here came satraps, courtiers and tributaries for homage to the curled & perfumed King of Kings. Here probably lived Esther, Queen of Xerxes whom the Old Testament calls Ahasuerus. Here came all-conquering Alexander the Great who, at the urging of one of his women, it is told...
...yours of Jan. 2 under "New Pictures," you devote a column and a half to Silver Dollar and to H. A. W. Tabor. Commenting on the same...
...life and government while Babylon ruled the known world"; ". . . its mystery is one with Angkor and Karkemish. . . ." By every definition of news such a report, if true, should have been splashed across every front page in the land. The Daily News did front page it, but under modest two-column headlines. The rest of the Press, including the New York Times, seemed undecided, gingerly tucked it in inside pages but quoted many of Reporter Casey's extravagances...
Vexed, the editor completely revises the synopsis, makes elaborate suggestions for a proper Soviet lyric. Docile, the poet does exactly as he is told, produces an effusion which the Zamoisk Spooler publishes under an eight-column streamer reading...
...waste an entire column of newsprint in an attempt to tear down the character of the man behind the movement? Surely it is no criticism of Howard Scott that he failed to be born with a gold spoon in his mouth. Jesus Christ began His career as a carpenter...