Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tower among undergraduates was not considered justified by Mr. Aldrich. "The tower of Christ Church College at Oxford of course furnished the basic design for the plan, but that does not seem to me to be basis for adverse criticism. The use of an octangular tower crowned with a dome is one of the main features of a great deal of architecture, even as early as the seventeenth century," was his comment...
...Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special U. S. counsel, conducted the prosecution before Justice William Hitz. Only novelty: they managed to introduce the illuminating fact that Fall, in a parallel case, had received some $269,000 in Liberty bonds from Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair who in return received the Teapot Dome lease...
...TIME, June 17), the Cardinal wrote: "Our Catholic hearts were filled with joy and our souls profoundly touched with indescribable emotion when we realized that the serene, impressive, apostolic, illuminating figure of our beloved Holy Father passed beyond the portals of St. Peter's, out under the blue dome of heaven, bearing Christ himself in the Holy Eucharist. Verified, surely, was the ancient truth: 'Where Peter is, there is the Church; where the Church is, there is Christ. This is our spiritual Inheritance that cannot fade.' (1 Peter...
...Trial of Albert Bacon Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior, starts at Washington. Charge: accepting bribes for leasing Teapot Dome oil reserve to Harry Ford Sinclair...
...weighing 27 tons, academically decorated to illustrate the legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once issued a special postage stamp. Most helpful have been the labor organizations which, for five years past, have labored slowly toward its completion...