Word: dome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World War I, which reduced Hungary's population and territory by 70%, the country scarcely rated such an edifice. Few things of world-shaking importance have happened there in the past 20 years...
...many an observer, first U. S. debates about the war were as big a scandal as Teapot Dome. A dead-centre discussion in which debaters were alternately flogged as Get-inners and Stay-outers, it raged and enraged as long as the Neutrality Bill was being debated, permitted no talk of programs. Last week at the Academy of Political Science, Thomas Lament spoke to 1,000 members on war's effects on U. S. economy, made it clear that, whether or not U. S. citizens agreed or disagreed with his proposals, the Get-in-or-Stay-out-theory...
Married. Sir Lancelot Oliphant, 58, tall, dome-headed British Ambassador to Belgium, and Christine, Viscountess Churchill; in London. Viscountess Churchill was divorced last year from Lieut. Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, rich Manhattan bibliophile who in 1927 discovered and bagged the long-lost "Boswell papers...
...tower will be an octagonal limestone shaft, 90 feet tall, topped by a dome. In the base will be an organ. Nancy hopes to have it ready for her sunrise service next Easter Morning, will dedicate it formally to Peace on Father's Day. Opposite the site, in the lagoon, lies a small island. The Commissioner of Parks is going to move the island, so that Nancy's tower can be reflected full length...
...years I have been a member. We have condemned the utilities, we have condemned Dr. Townsend; but at least they had to have offices downtown. They had to employ secretaries. They had to buy typewriters and, at least, they did not set up their committees under the dome of the Capitol...