Word: cruciforms
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...Copan River. At the invitation of the Honduras Government, a commission from the Carnegie Institution of Washington arrived last month to undertake restoration and protection. Behind a collapsed wall Head Commissioner Gustav Stromsvik was startled to find stone staircases leading down to subterranean galleries never before suspected. There were cruciform rooms with floors painted scarlet, amphitheatres containing monoliths and tinted statues with bead collars, canals and sewage systems connecting underground buildings. At the feet of a towering statue of a warrior, Mr. Stromsvik found a pair of exquisitely wrought boots of pure gold, two inches high...
...full of strange balls and about 80 ancient & honorable golf clubs. There were warped cleeks, battered baffys, jiggers, brassies, spoons and nibicks, the whole making the finest collection of antique golfing impedimenta ever brought to the U. S. Soon they will occupy a special museum wing in the new cruciform James River Country Club near Newport News. After he had exhibited a print of what he believes to be the first recorded game of golf, reprinted from an illuminated Book of Hours in 1457 in the British Museum, Engineer Campbell dumped the rest of his treasures on the deck...
...site in Augusta, on the estate of William Howard Ganett, retired publisher of Comfort.* Colby declined. Its loyalty to Waterville was rewarded: Citizens donated 600 acres on Mayflower Hill in the outskirts. There, when the $3,000,000 is raised, a new Colby will rise, on a cruciform campus with redbrick, white-columned Georgian buildings...
Judges admitted last week that the final factor in awarding the several-million-dollar-contract to young Architect Gleave was that his design alone was earthquake proof: an 800-ft.-long cruciform ramp of solid masonry from the top of which a blood-red cross will be projected into the sky as an air beacon...
...Washington. Less pretentious and less costly than Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, it will nevertheless with 71,000 square feet of floor space exceed in area the famed cathedrals of Notre-Dame de Paris, Rheims, Cologne, Canterbury and Westminster Abbey. Units of its Gothic, cruciform plan already completed are the apse and choir (top of the cross), the entire foundations, the crypt of the nave, three crypt chapels, a Children's Chapel. Now being constructed are the two arms of the cross: the North and South transepts. To complete these in time for the bicentenary...