Word: dome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME stands almost alone in its understanding of France. In general, the American conception of French thought and action is erroneous. To your Greenwich Villager, France appears pre-eminently the land of personal liberty where individual expression is unshackled. Even our American expatriates sitting shabby and unkempts at "Le Dome" still boast French tolerance and wail American narrow-minded provincialism...
...scientific field of concentration that is not too highly specialized and possesses pre-eminently cultural values. The study of astronomy is the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge alone. Any yet who should not have the comforting satisfaction of knowing the true nature of the starry dome that confronts the eye of the casual observer on every clear night...
Into a Congressional committee room in Washington, D. C. stepped Owen D. Young and wearily dropped into a chair. He was sightseeing, he explained. He needed rest while his son Dick, 12, climbed to the Capitol dome. Said Banker Young: "I've brought each of my children to Washington on Easter when they reached 12. He is the last. ... I have found how much [the Government] offers physically to the taxpayer. Before I return home I expect to be a qualified guide...
...farmer, who has been first in line at every New Year's reception for a half-century, indicates the attraction which the ritual has for the popular mind. Until it is re-instituted, there will be very little in a trip to Washington for John Robinson, except the great dome of the Library of Congress to stare...
...everyone knew it until last week when the 47th annual edition appeared. The publisher is, of course, the Scripps-Howard organization, owner of the World-Telegram. But the book is still called The World Almanac & Book of Facts; its cover still bears the familiar design of the ugly gilt dome of the old World Building, and its editor still is Robert Hunt Lyman. The 1932 Almanac does not differ from last year's by much more than other editions have varied from their predecessors. But that means that about 40% of its substance is entirely new. The remaining...