Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago motorists were heading north last week to see one of the most fantastic pieces of architecture in the U.S.-the continent's first Bahá'i Temple of Worship (see cut), on Lake Michigan's shores in suburban Wilmette...
...Temple, a mélange of ancient styles sparkling with tons of white quartz crystals, was newly completed after eleven years' labor. Nine-sided, it stands in a nine-acre park, is supported by nine concrete piers sunk 90 feet below the water level of nearby Lake Michigan...
...first when the carnotite mines of Colorado and again when the Belgian Congo ceased to be the only profitable sources of radium. The third break in price occurred soon after the discovery in 1930 of a rich vein of pitchblende-the ore containing uranium and radium-at Great Bear Lake on the Arctic Circle in Canada (in North America only Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan are larger...
...Chinese communique admitted that the enemy forces had taken Chiangkou, northeast of the lake, and Kungan, in the same area...
CHUNGKING -- Outnumbered Chinese troops fought stoutly today against two Japanese forces totalling 28,000 men which sought to drive them westward from Lake Tungting in the middle Yangtze area and street fighting was reported in several small towns and villages...