Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That fogs have eased in the last 40 years is borne out by fact as well as old fogies. The London Fog Inquiry Board in 1903 reported that visibility from atop St. Paul's dome averaged only a half-mile daily between 2 and 3 p.m. from Dec. 20, 1902 to March 17, 1903. The Air Ministry found that during the winter of 1943-44 average visibility had risen to one and one-quarter miles...
...recommended, however, that the ill-begotten threskiornis perched on the ceramic dome be donated to the Cambridge Nature Walking Society. "That's one way to kill two Ibes with one stone...
...these same G.l.s. St. Paul's is to have a new memorial, a chapel. Dedicated to Americans who in World War II fell fighting from England in the cause that was also England's, it will stand close to Nelson's tomb under the great dome...
...Dome of Many Colored Glass. These ghostly skylarkings merely carry to the point of caricature the lovingly-labored transformation of Shelley from flaming infidel to versifying vicar at which Author Smith & Others* tilt grimly in The Shelley Legend. The "Shelley Legend," they say, "is a term used to characterize fallacious views about the life of Shelley and his writings which have grown up principally under the careful supervision first of Mary Shelley [Shelley's second wife], and after her death, in 1851, of Lady Shelley, wife of the poet's son, Sir Percy Florence Shelley." The authors...
Died. Oliver K. Bovard, 73, austere, softspoken, longtime managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and power behind his paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard...