Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earth was the largest, and in fact the only independent body. The sun and moon, mere lamps for the convenience of humanity, passed round and under the earth, sometimes through great caverns and archways, sometimes between the legs of a giant turtle, on whose back rested a huge pillar which supported everything. The difficulty with this latter theory was that the turtle had to have something to stand on, and whatever the turtle stood upon had to stand on something else and so on, until even the most complete Noah's ark was exhausted before anything definite could possibly...
...with them were the expected " angels" of the next Republican campaign: William Wrigley, Jr., multimillionaire in chewing gum; E. T. Stotesbury of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Frank W. Stearns, wealthy dry goods merchant of Boston, long a backer of Mr. Coolidge; James H. Stanley, lawyer, of Denver, and Republican pillar in the West...
Bishop Alma White, the founder of the Pillar of Fire Church, and an author of various religious works, is President of the institution under the new regime. In an interview for the Princetonian today Bishop White deplored the present indifference of the undergraduate to the Klan and predicted that in the near future "it will sweep through the intellectual student classes as through the masses of the people...
...monument, a large pillar, was erected to the memory of 117 employees of the East India Company who died from suffocation in 1756 when Surajah Dowlah, a Bengali ruler, had 147 prisoners thrust into the famous Black Hole?18 feet square...
...Exhibition includes a number of "pillar-prints"--tall narrow sheets designed to provide pictures to decorate the wooden pillar of the Japanese house. This shape taxed all the resources of the designer, demanding the exclusion of all but a few significant lines...