Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first cases springing directly from the Oil Scandal was tried in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision stated that the leases of the Teapot Dome lands should be cancelled due to fraud. Not one of the people incriminated in the trial have taken the stand to defend themselves. They have evidently decided that whatever they say might incriminate them. Doheny stated that all the charges made against him were false. He awaited only the opportunity to clear himself. When the time came, he never made the least attempt to appear before the court. This is no plea...
...hurricane of wind swept everything before it. ... Through the jet black night only the majestic contour of vast Alagoz, the volcanic mountain with its dome of eternal snow standing out like a beacon on the broad Leninakan Plain, could be perceived...
Briefly stated, the most important conjecture is that early in the history of the juvenile earth there was a single continent composed essentially of a granite crust floating on a glassy basaltic substratum. This unique continent was domed and furrowed in response to strains due chiefly to contraction of the cooling earth and to decrease in rotational velocity because of tidal retardation. "At the close of the Paleozoic Era, the east-west geosyncline of the northern hemisphere was intensely crumpled by the sliding-together of the North Polar and the Equatorial dome. The result was the Appalachian-Hercynian system...
...often mentioned as potential material for a future Supreme Court appointment. +The day after Judge Kenyon's decision, the common stock of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. fell to a new low for the year (18%). Meanwhile, statisticians busied themselves, announced that the oil yields from Teapot Dome had been disappointing after...
Pope Pius XI: "As many people know, I was, before my elevation, wiry, supple. I walked many miles a day and often climbed upon the mountains. Last week I showed that I still have the use of my legs by climbing up into the Dome of St. Peter's, a feat rarely accomplished by any of my predecessors, obese or otherwise. Although a strong wind was blowing, I sat for about an hour in an armchair on the balcony, watching some workmen build the new Vatican seminary...