Word: plinths
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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However, since somebody must be blamed, the architects, engineers agreed on a name, a revered name, a name chiseled across the very plinth of the great arch of modern architecture, none other than the name of the builder of St. Paul's. Everyone, perhaps including the Dean himself, seized eagerly upon this suggestion. Even a diminutive and far from prominent member of the famed St. Paul's choristers got hold of the idea and made a rhyme about it which he passed around at choir practice behind the cover of a fat hymnbook. It seemed very funny because...