Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little America, base camp of the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, and sometimes the air is extraordinarily clear. At such favorable times Dr. Thomas Charles Poulter, on leave from Iowa Wesleyan College, has had a crew of men recording meteors. Four men sit hour after hour inside a glass dome mounted in the roof of a shack. When one spies a falling star he barks "Time!" and a recorder with a stopwatch makes an entry of the hour, minute and second. So steadily and frequently were meteors recorded that Dr. Poulter last week estimated some 1,000,000,000 must fall...
...Calver is too discreet a man to discuss the upping of his rank and pay while the matter is in hot dispute. He begged leave to say not a word on the subject and retired to the two small, photograph-decked rooms under the Capitol's dome which constitute his office, examining room and dispensary. Dr. Calver draws $292.50 a month as a commander in the Navy on special duty with Congress...
...some choice tid-bits of knowledge to top off the season. On their way upstairs one of the members, supposedly a stranger to the architectural beauties of Adams House paused before the Tudor door that leads into the Roman court and smiled as he looked at the Moorish dome over the stair well. "It looks like a boudoir," he said...
...Azana might easily start a civil war. Finally he picked a political dummy for Alejandro Lerroux named Ricardo Samper Ibanez, an owlish, spectacled lawyer from Valencia and Lerroux's onetime Minister of Industry & Commerce. All but three of the Lerroux Cabinet were reappointed. Most notable omission was cultivated dome-browed Salvador de Madariaga, trilingual veteran of dozens of League conferences at Geneva...
...Rome he managed to win an art competition prize, to climb the dome of St. Peter's and carve his initials higher than any previous vandal. He remained there two years or less; an alert guard caught him climbing a nunnery wall and he returned to Saragossa where he was promptly given a commission to decorate a church...