Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest mound at Nuzi rises about five and one half meters above the plain. Its top is nearly level and measures some 160 meters square. This was probably the citadel. It contains the ruins of an immense building of uncertain dimensions. The excavated portion, estimated as one-half, measures 116 by 68 meters, and contains 100 rooms. The objects and inscriptions found there seem to indicate that the building was in part palace and in part temple. Among the tablets are some, which record lists of offerings and pay-lists of temple employees. The bronze censer and the fragments...
...Donovan grinned when newsgatherers begged him to admit that he would be the Hoover Attorney-General. Said he: "I appreciate the compliment you fellows are paying me. . . . But I do want to make it plain that Mr. Hoover has not asked me. . . . That is a fact...
...always plain that Europe and the United States are lacking in mutual understanding. . . . They appear to think that we are going to do exactly what they would do if they had our chance. . . . It is befitting that we should pursue our course . . . in accordance with the requirements of conscience and righteousness...
...steps of the Takamikura and sat down in his black lacquer chair. Pompously the Lord Chamberlain placed upon stands adjoining the Throne, the sacred Sword and Jewel, emblems and relics of the Sun Goddess, which, together with the Divine Mirror, attest the utter sanctity of the enthronement. Then a plain wooden baton was presented to the Tenno - "The Scepter...
...Howard: "The plain truth of the matter, plus a sportsmanlike desire to give credit where credit is due, compels the frank admission that after having been afforded two years' opportunity to judge of a result which had involved the employment of much ingenuity and the expenditure of several million dollars, an overwhelming majority of the people of Denver and the adjacent newspaper field continued their preference for the type of evening paper produced by F. G. Bonfils in the Evening Post, rather than for the type offered by Scripps-Howard in the Evening News. ... On the other hand...