Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reface the white painted sandstone with white marble to match the Senate and House wings. The main section of the building between the two wings, although it has been altered, is virtually all that remains of the Capitol as it was planned in 1793. Since the great cast-iron dome was built in the 1850s to replace the smaller original one, architects, including Thomas Walter, designer of the dome and Congressional wings, have argued that the east fagade should be extended so that the dome would rise from the centre of the building instead of the east portico. Some sentimentalists...
...live in the two fine Georgian buildings, Gore and Standish Halls. It is generally believed that lack of cerise of mauve colored tower has helped to poster the democratic make-up of the House. Instead of referring to Winthrop in the House with the "so-and-so" colored dome, the House has come to be identified with the men who live there...
...host handed him to us to hold--unpleasant, because Frankie's claws were sharp as steel and busy every second. The professor meanwhile doused a cotton wad in ether on which to deposit the beast, and on top of both was placed a large bell jar, like the dome of Grant's tomb. This not without blood-curdling howls, and scratches, and a beady look of the eye as sour as the Ancient Mariner's as the beast passed...
...been run but 300 miles by His Exalted Highness during its career of 26 years in Hyderabad. While putting on the streamlined fenders, Hyderabad artisans were instructed to build the centre of the body up much higher last week into a sort of throne topped by a gilt dome. In this way the Rolls was made practically as good for a parade as an elephant & howdah...
Steward Novikoff-Priboy's battle-station on the Oryol was in the sickbay. When the big guns started, "the heavens resounded like an iron dome struck by Titans' hammers." The Russian shells were armor-piercing but often nonexplosive; the Japanese shells exploded on contact, started hundreds of fires on the Russian ships, which were heavily overdecorated with woodwork. The Japanese gunners concentrated their aim at the leading Russian ships; the Russians shot at anything they could see. First casualty was the Oslyabya. Pounded by six Japanese cruisers, her guns went silent one by one. The jar of each...