Word: cordova
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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...
...Cordova, Alaska...
...around it originated. The two set out on the same boat from Newport, Rhode Island, each with $87. Shipping as deck boys, they went through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle. They took to the water again, journeying on to Alaska, spending Christmas day in Cordova, loading copper in snow-covered sacks...
TIME Cordova, Alaska...
During a session of the Mexican House of Representatives, Congressman Mena Cordova of Campeche State drew a revolver and fired three shots at Lieutenant Rueda de Leon; one bullet lodged in his leg. The echoes of the shots were drowned in cries of " Viva General Calles!" "Viva de la Huerta!" Then Congressman Santa Ana engaged a "comrade" in the art of fisticuffs. The session was suspended...