Word: dome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committeeroom, which has much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel Springs, N. C., chairman of the joint committee, his bald dome almost as bright as his Palm Beach suit; at his left, Senator Pat Harrison, vice chairman...
Hollay, whose appointment is a three year one, is a specialist in wing theory and has served as consultant engineer to the Institute's Astrophysics Council on problems connected with the design of the new 200-inch telescope dome. Vose's term will run one year...
...white granite mint, built like the legendary San Francisco hillside cow (five stories in front, three behind) was dedicated in that city by Mrs. Ross. Covering a city block bounded by Buchanan, Hermann, Webster and Duboce Streets, the box-shaped mint squats on the scalped dome of live rock which made that block a real-estate liability until the Government took it. From the sidewalk visitors must climb 175 steps to the huge sliding bronze front door where bas relief dollars two feet wide greet them. A storage and assay depot as well as a mint, the new building began...
Under the dome of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, acoustically the finest hall in the country, the Glee Club will offer a program of sixteenth century motets on Friday, May 21, in roder to get the effect of singing in a Gothic cathedral...
...late Senator Thomas J. Walsh-she turned her talents to entertaining. At her home, "Uplands" on Foxhall Road her Sunday night entertainments featured the political lions of Washington. There, on spring evenings, looking across the lawns towards the lights of the Potomac's bridges and the distant dome of the Capitol, she has entertained nearly every Democratic Senator in the Capitol, all the important Ambassadors and many another bigwig, taking particular delight in pitting conservatives and liberals, such as Justice Roberts and Heywood Broun, or George Creel and David Lawrence...