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Word: domes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home to Los Angeles, Calif., to gather round their Christmas tree. All criminal charges against the oil man and his son will probably be dropped. Not so, Mr. Fall-he remains in Washington, where he will soon go on criminal trial with Harry F. Sinclair because of the Teapot Dome oil leases. This trial will be dismally anticlimactic. For, how could Mr. Fall be a patriot at Elk Hills and a crook at Teapot Dome? Even the jurors were surprised, on hearing for the first time, that Mr. Fall had to face another criminal trial, that the Government had already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: No Yellow Necktie | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...state that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals tried a case when its very nature as an appellate court prevents it from being a trial court? How could Sinclair a private citizen, sell public lands and he arrested therefor." Why state that the courts refused to cancel the Teapot Dome leases when a reference to the reported decisions would show the contrary to be true? Why bring the Elk Hills Reservation and Pearl Harbor contracts before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals when the subject-matter is within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit? Why involve the late Attorney General...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL-- | 12/7/1926 | See Source »

...summit is a broad, gently-curving dome of white granite, with many large blocks loosened by the weather, and, until one approached the edge and looked down to the base of the tremendous vertical cliffs, all seemed gentle and smiling, for we had a warm, still day. The next day it snowed and visitors were peevish. The view, of course, is immense--peaks on peaks for hundreds of miles, forests and valleys, lakes and streams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. E. Wolf Describes Trip to Vicinity of Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...Langley illustrates the dissected dome feature already mentioned. This old summit level is, I suppose, and old plane of erosion, later uplifted, and the dissection guided by the dominant structures of the granite, which includes two vertical planes of easy splitting and, much less marked, a curving horizontal plane of weakness. The weather works into the vertical plane and splits off great blocks, which, falling, form the immense masses at the foot of the cliffs and thus originate the tremendous precipices and great jags of the crest, like splinters set on edge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. E. Wolf Describes Trip to Vicinity of Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...first tried, deciding that the lease of the Elk, Hills Reservation should be cancelled due to fraud. The case was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the decision, and the matter is now appendine in the Supreme Court. Later the courts refused to cancel the Teapot Dome lease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW PROFESSOR FLAYS U. S. OIL PROSECUTION | 12/4/1926 | See Source »

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