Word: pediment
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...mistakes. Let none therefore mistake me for a TIME naggler in correcting TIME'S adequate account of Manhattan's Architectural League Exhibition. The small mistake appears in TIME'S reference to "small" Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted for his tall self and tall towers. Lofty-spire-and-pediment-building Corbett stands well over six feet on the bare foot...
Lord Elgin made the most of his good luck. Putting a broad interpretation upon his carte blanche, he proceeded to divest the Parthenon of its rarest ornaments-pediment, friezes, metopes, statuary. He proceeded as a private individual, without authority of parliament, with only private encouragement of public men. Hundreds of natives were employed in excavating, removing. The people of Greece showed no resentment. Indeed the interest attaching to the work brought tourists. The tourists, then as always, spent money. As for the Turks, they had little use for Greek relics, other than as objects upon which to inflict spiteful blows...
...huge bronze sow, so lifelike that it seemed to snuffle, was set up at Leuenberg, last week, upon an imposing pediment...
...soon we will be ready to put the new carvings up", continued Mr. Evans, "for we shall have to make several rapirs on the east pediment itself, so that I should say it would be a month or so before we are ready for the final part of the work...
...sculpture which is at present on the west pediment represents the seal of the Holden family, surrounded by the figures of cherubs, and angels. It is probably the oldest bit of wood carving existing in the University...