Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bismuth; bladders, rough-hewn blocks...
Fortunately there are other staircases in the Latjeran. Cardinal Gasparri, Signor Mussolini and their suites entered not all kneeling, but militantly erect. They met and faced each other across a massive table, 16 feet long and 4 feet wide, the top hewn from a single log of deep red narra wood from the Philippines. Present at the signing were no guests, no newspapermen, no servants, and only two photographers who scuttled out as soon as they had snapped the awesome scene. The door was then locked and Papal Attorney Pacelli read solemnly the text of the Italo-Papal agreement which...
...reward or memento a chip recently hewn by the active axe of Wilhelm of Doom was presented to each Frankfurter...
These inscriptions found on stone tablets which were hewn from the mountainside by the research-party, were deciphered by Professor Butin and others in Cairo this fall, and have proved fairly conclusive the existence of a definite link between Egyptian hieroghypics and the carliest Phoenician alphabet...
...West, Communism as the hope of all that is hopable there by Author Sinclair and the woeful workers whose Moses he is. Like many bores, Mr. Sinclair is genial; like more, he has investi gated his subject. So the charac ters are appealing - J. Arnold Ross, onetime muleteer, rough-hewn oil baron; his son, Bunny, honest by his lights, which shift from the Kliegs of Hollywood to the rising Soviet sun; their friends, enemies, mistresses and Bunny's "Wobbly" comrades for whom great sympathy is obtained by their physical dis tresses including suicide by drowning in an oil well...