Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heavy Dome. Some still earlier words of the President to the people came echoing back last week. On his television tour of the White House, Harry Truman had digressed into a brief discussion of architecture (like history, one of his favorite subjects), and he let .the public in on a scary little secret: the dome of the Capitol, he said, is seven feet off center, and "that old sandstone building is going to crumble up one of these days with that cast-iron dome...
...check of this disturbing news last week showed that the President had got it wrong-as he often does. He apparently had fallen victim to an old Washington rumor that the dome .was off balance and resting on a crumbling sandstone wall. He asked an expert about it, but misunderstood or misremembered the answer. Actually, the dome is resting comfortably on a substantial granite ring and is structurally sound...
...which showed a paunchy, string-tied figure labeled "G.O.P." raising his hands in horror at the very thought of Tammany Hall, while behind him stood an unsavory chorus of such figures as Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Attorney General Harry Daugherty and other Republicans implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. Next to the Depression itself, a Kirby cartoon ("Two Chickens in Every Garage") did as much as anything to defeat Herbert Hoover in 1932. After Repeal, which Kirby did as much as any man to bring about, he showed Mr. Dry being lugged off to the graveyard, mourned...
This Great Refractor with which Harvard began its astronomic history was then the equal of the world's largest telescope. It still stands on Observatory Hill with its fine lenses, but pictorially speaking its "mounting is outmoded, its drive antiquated and the dome squeaks with age when disturbed...
...Most likely it has been in that process for centuries." Superstitious natives think otherwise. Some say the Didicas Rocks are the steeples of an old Spanish church, submerged long ago by God to punish some wicked Spanish friars. The smoking crater, they insist, is a hole in the church dome, a chimney for incense being burned by the long-dead friars as an act of repentance...