Word: fines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Washington picked the site "upon a rising ground, affording a fine water prospect, with a view of the Capitol." James Hoban, an Irish architect residing in Charleston, S. C., won a $500 prize competition for the plans by copying the ducal home of Leinster near Dublin. Much of his design was lopped away for economy's sake. President Washington laid the cornerstone without ceremony...
...that $1,000,000 is the final goal for which the authorities are working. If this total can be raised the interest from it should be sufficient to cover the large running expenses which have increased greatly with the expansion which the Fogg Art Museum and the Department of Fine Arts have undergone during the past few years...
This gift is interesting because it constitutes the first recognition by any publisher of the fact that Harvard realizes the importance of fine printing and typography. The recent presentation by Philip Hofer '21 of 600 modern books illustrative of the art of printing was made with the purpose of establishing in the Library a department of typography; and it is therefore gratifying to the officials of the Library already to have achieved recognition...
Fact. A few days previously King Al fonso signed a royal decree empowering the government: 1) To impose a fine of from 25 to 2,500 pesetas ($3.80 to $380), and imprisonment from one to 14 days on anyone arrested by the police and pro nounced guilty by the Minister of the Interior, General Martinez Anido. of "speaking in a public place against the government, the Crown, or the interests of the Nation;" 2) To suppress any society or club upon whose premises such speaking may occur; 3) To dismiss any employe of the State deemed hostile to the government...
...sanctuary from his well-bred kindly friends. But friends being what they are, one of them broke sanctuary; and not knowing why Gale had left Justine, begged him to be reconciled to her. Bitterly, Gale: "Do you ever read your Apocrypha? You should. You really should. It has some fine eloquent passages. 'Like a eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning heavily.' What a magnificent metaphor! Those old fellows knew how to express themselves. They didn't mince matters. They got down to the heart of things...