Word: pedimental
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...until the present day, has been the headquarters of the odds and ends department of the college. Recently the favorite haunt of speech classes, it is now a Navy storeroom. Students pass by without noticing it, usually totally ignorant of its history. The decorative applied heraldry on the east pediment no longer has any significance. To the Navy sentries it is just another ivy covered Harvard building...
...midyears. My room was too small for them so my room-mate very agreeably shifted with me. This room looks over the Court and at night if my little black alarm clock is stopped I can look at the big illuminated dial in the Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbot pediment opposite. Thus I know when it is twelve o'clock and high time to stop studying. Or if I am not studying I know when it is high time to stop something else...
...shrewd compendium of romance and catastrophe, with emphasis on the latter, skilfully administered by Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke, San Francisco is an excellent example of Hollywood's ability to make yesterday's headlines as exciting as today's. Good shot: The bent figure on a pediment pitching slowly forward...
Robert Aitken (Supreme Court Building pediment) was rounding out his fourth year of work on the direct commission for a frieze in the Columbus, Ohio Gallery of Fine Arts...
...figures have an impressive, if somewhat posed, nobility, and they are simply conceived and carried out. He designed Manhattan's imposing Maine Monument at Columbus Circle, its Firemen's Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting a man and a tree into a segment space. Other fine work: The Bronx's Columbus Monument, Albany's Mother's Monument, Richmond, Va.'s bust of Thomas Jefferson...