Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...layman observers next crowded up into the wooden dome which houses the 96-year-old refracting telescope, which, in its day, was the largest in the world. Climbing up into a plush-covered seat beside the graduate observerer, the visitors at first caught a glimpse of the craters of the moon, but only a small portion of the total surface could be seen at a time...
Later, the dome and telescope were swung onto Jupiter, but the planet appeared only as a very small pill, and the many moons which are its distinguishing feature were hidden...
...when the deep boiled like a pot. Near Moultrie, Ga. a schoolgirl was killed when she stepped on a storm-whipped live wire. At Dinner Key the wind blew 123 miles per hour at the Pan-American Airways base. Houses crumpled, boats swamped, streets flooded. Part of the metal dome of the State Capitol at Tallahassee was torn...
...maneuvered his longtime crony Warren Gamaliel Harding to the Republican nomination as a compromise candidate, got the Attorney Generalship as his reward. A year later his impeachment was sought on 14 charges of malfeasance but the move fell through in the House. A Senate committee prying into the "Teapot Dome" oil scandal suspected his involvement; it was unable to prove it. Shortly afterward he resigned under pressure. He was indicted for graft involving the Alien Property Custodian but was not convicted. For the rest of his life he labored to clear his name. He died with his work unfinished. Totally...
...tempered old Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, mountaineer chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. Still smarting from the slap in the face that Franklin Roosevelt gave him over the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 11), Muley Doughton jammed his battered black planter's hat down on his bald dome, stumped around to the White House...