Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News from the city of Florence itself was more doubtful. It was uncertain whether the fountainhead of the Renaissance was still lifting all its loveliest jets toward the sky-Giotto's tinted and delicate campanile; Brunelleschi's great cathedral dome which, looming above the huge round windows of its supporting tower, has risen against the horizon as the city's most prominent symbol. Also unaccounted for were Florence's masterly sculptures, including Michelangelo's celebrated marble David, Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo...
Under the big gold dome of San Francisco's City Hall there were sighs and reminiscent laughter. In the press room and in the ornate, blue and gilt Chamber where the City's Board of Supervisors meets, they knew that something wonderful was gone. Ruddy, jut-jawed James B. McSheehy, master of the mangled metaphor, was dead...
Beneath St. Peter's dome stood Monsignor Enrico Pucci, head of the Vatican's semi-official news bureau. He looked out across the jeep-filled streets of the Eternal City and murmured: "Oh, it's just another changing of the guard...
...Therefore, something more than his $155,000-a-year salary was needed as an incentive to keep him running the corporation. But few oilmen believed that there was any danger of Sinco quitting. He had never been a quitter, not even during the ill-famed Teapot Dome scandal...
...from Drumright, Okla. to Chicago, and netted a company profit of $28,000,000 by selling it to his archrival, Standard Oil of Indiana. Shortly after, he made a deal with John D. Rockefeller Jr., who had fired Standard's Colonel Robert Stewart for his part in the Dome scandal, to merge his fast-failing Prairie Oil Companies with Sinclair. Sinclair magnanimously called the new corporation Consolidated Oil, leaving his name out of the title. A year ago Consolidated, grown to be a $447,000,000 corporation, changed its name back to Sinclair...