Word: dome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Mt. Palomar's forested upper slopes thick fog drifted over the road and hail hissed out of the clouds. The three trucks groped through it fearfully, for a skid might have rolled both trucks and mirror down the steep mountainside. Then, as the mirror neared the observatory dome-shining like frosted silver and big as a railroad roundhouse-a shaft of brilliant sunlight broke through the clouds. The nearest star, the sun, was friendly...
...astronomers, engineers and technicians thanked all the stars as they watched the mirror backed into the observatory. The case was opened. A crane lifted the precious freight over the threshold of the chamber under the dome, where the giant telescope, crouched on its massive supports, was waiting...
Cineminister Dryer conducts the nondenominational services for his films and preaches the sermons himself, which are illustrated with his own mood shots of nature (e.g., a glimpse of Yosemite's Half Dome: "God is the Rock of Ages in the midst of a confused world...
...power to investigate were trying to bore a hole in the boat to let the water out. Since they were first borrowed from the British Parliament, congressional investigations had proved to be a useful weapon. A Senate committee headed by Tom Walsh had uncovered the scandal brewed in Teapot Dome. Out of the Pecora investigation of Wall Street had come the Securities and Exchange Commission; out of the Senate War Investigating Committee had come the exposure of war-profiteering Representative Andy...
Other ideas submitted to the Committee include a new Medical Center; a hockey rink: a Music Center, with space for symphony concerts; a building enshrining international good-will, such as a dome-shaped Forum earmaked for the discussion of foreign policy issues; better ROTC facilities; and a fund for the improvement of municipal politics in the United States...