Word: cupolaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Nicholas Murray Butler was a few days old, his aunt gathered the baby, an American flag, a $10 gold piece and a Bible in her arms. Then she carried her treasures up to the cupola of the house, and in a little ceremony dedicated little Nicholas to a life of patriotism, wealth and piety. All that was missing, to include all of the symbols that Butler lived by, was the blue-&-white pennant of Columbia University...
...scaffolding, which caused the speculations, will be taken down when the job is finished in two or three weeks, he said. The weather vane and the small yellow painted cupola will be gilded while the tower dome will get another coat of blue paint...
...beneath it a kitchen that was then the largest in New England. On the second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes and stuffed birds. In the cupola on the roof was the College bell, brought over from an Italian convent...
...Coming up the grand trunk highway from New Delhi, you could see as far away as 14 miles clouds of smoke hanging over Amritsar. Now & then the high golden cupola of the Sikh's Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...
...frazzled way, Independence would be happy to see him. Harry Truman had caused his home town a great deal of trouble. Zealous merchants, who had put out $3,000 to decorate Independence in splendid' Christmas trappings, fidgeted last week when the revolving display on the courthouse cupola refused to revolve. Then the lights on the town Christmas trees would not work, and the choir boys, who were to sing carols over the public-address system, turned up some discouragingly deep bassos. But Independence's worst frustration came from the President's time schedule. After 24 hours, most...