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...others: the pyramids of Egypt, the gardens of Semiramis at Babylon, the statue of the Olympian Zeus by Phidias, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos (lighthouse) at Alexandria. In some listings, the Walls of Babylon are substituted for the Pharos...
...Olympian Ultimatum. It was not for lack of effort on labor's part. Swarms of hard-bitten labor lobbyists bustled around Capitol Hill all session. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself stumped from office to office, making gruff demands for repeal. International Typographical Union President Elmer Brown even distributed copies of an Olympian ultimatum admonishing Congress: "Our patience is about exhausted with being doublecrossed. And the Senators ought to know that they cannot doublecross the labor movement again and get away with...
...meet may depend not on Villanova and Maryland runners, but on the top runners from other schools. If St. John's enters Olympian Tommy Farrell in the 880, he's a clinch to beat Carroll. But if Farrell runs the 440, as he has been doing this spring, Carroll only has to beat the same field that trailed him in the IC4A 1000-yard...
...life-and-death defense against Japanese aggression, insisted that the United States' vital interests were confined to the Atlantic, and warned that, under no circumstances should this country allow itself to become embroiled in a "two-ocean" war, which it could not possibly win. Despite his Olympian stance, pontifical self-assurance, and popular prestige, history is likely to judge Walter Lippmann, as a prophet, to have been more gravely mistaken more often on more major issues than any other leading commentator...
Here some two dozen agile stunt men sustain the casualties for both sides, making death look like an Olympian test of skill. Their tardy efforts to save Major Dundee from mediocrity rival the gesture of Actor Heston who, with a perhaps excessive sense of responsibility, returned his $200,000 salary to Columbia Pictures to pay for last-minute improvements in the film. Alas, the bread thus cast upon the waters seems to have sunk without a trace...