Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have attributed many ambitions to Harry Ford Sinclair: to clear his name of the Teapot Dome charges; to own another horse like his famed Zev; but mostly to build a billion-dollar oil company, an ambition worthy of his luck and judgment. Last week's report that Sinclair had succeeded, pictured a merger of the following...
...claims priority, because he con ceived his system six years earlier, in 1893. The theoretical path of Tesla's waves were through the earth, not through the air as Hertzian waves go. On Long Island, Tesla built a steel tower 187 ft. high surmounted by a 68-ft. bossed dome. The tower was to disseminate wireless power. Mr. Morgan died in 1913. Dr. Tesla lacked money. He abandoned the tower, let it be destroyed...
...studio on its grounds, the Temple of Light has been called by Architect Harold Van Buren Magonigle "the first new idea in architecture since the 13th century." Nine-sided, looking somewhat like a 161-ft. beehive, it is composed of two superimposed stories and a great Oriental dome. As yet incomplete, its concrete sides will be covered with fancy stonework, the dome filled in with translucent glass. Three-quarters of a million dollars, half of its eventual cost, have been expended upon it, but now Baha'i has no more money, and will ask for none. All contributions must...
...Colorado hero, in Pasadena, Calif. Because he was a pioneer railroader (onetime president of Denver & Rio Grande), a pioneer builder of such state-wide projects as the telegraph system, and a member of Colorado's first legislature, his stained-glass portrait hangs in the State Capitol's dome, Denver...
Died. Frederick Lincoln Siddons, 66, Associate Justice since 1915 and dean of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, presiding justice in the trial of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for conspiracy in the Teapot Dome case (TIME. April 15, 1929); of acute indigestion and dilation of the heart; in Washington. British-born, he was a great-grandson of Actress Sarah Siddons, had been urged in his youth to go on the stage...