Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain at Pi Eta opens on a starkly effective silhouette of Peter Prangnell's representation of the Trojan Gate of War, but Giradoux's Tiger at the Gates is not a play about Trojans or even about Giradoux's France and Germany: despite its setting it contains much drawing room comedy, while being concerned with the "stupidity of men and the elements." The HDC production manages to carry it all off with verve...
...enormous building "B" is itself a fine example of Roman colonial architecture of the second century A.D. To the east of it, the recently-excavated spectacular ruins of a triple gate (or perhaps quadruple gate--further digging this coming summer will deside definitely) dedicated to a Roman Empress "Julia," have been revealed. This area has yielded superb capitals and marble column bases in a bewilderingly early style of Roman architecture. "In this area," says Hanfmann, "We have plenty of digging yet to be done. Frankly, we barely know where we are at in 'East...
About one hundred freshmen enter its gate annually--perhaps drawn by the notion that Sarah Lawrence is the college for the artist, or the intellectual, or the Bohemian, or the debutante. Perhaps what appeals to them is Sarah Lawrence's reputation as a haven of femine individualism...
Gazing resentfully at raw stumps, gaping holes and blocked-off streets, Rome's citizens let out a noise that could be heard distinctly above the traffic's roar. Tunneling for one underpass, charged critics, would irretrievably weaken the 16th century gate at the Piazza del Popolo, as well as whole sections of the city wall built by the Emperor Aurelian (A.D. 270-275). "Our trees are being slaughtered," added Columnist Indro Montanelli. "because they have neither voices nor votes. We are being drowned in a wave of cement...
Racing to the arcade, the four men scaled a 6-ft. gate and entered the second jewelry store. There they scooped up another $140,000 worth and found the keys to yet another Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' store. Next stop: Regent Street, branch No. 3, and the biggest haul of all-jewelry worth $420,000 and keys to the associate jewelry firm of Arthur H. Drew Ltd. in Victoria Street...