Word: restedness
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That the dome, weighing from 40,000 to 60,000 tons, rests upon eight piers which, though they appear imposingly massive, are in reality no more than stone pipes bolstered with rubble. The weight of the dome has made every one of them shift or crack. That the Cathedral'...
They crossed the Kansas cornlands and the badlands and the Rockies. Hauled by panting locomotives, they crossed the desert and crawled up into the Sierras. Then they dropped down to the ribbon of shore at the edge of the Pacific. There they rested-those football playing men of Missouri, in...
At that moment, an Emperor of the East was lifting a distinguished gentleman of an ancient oriental family to the high rank of Ambassador, was sending him to the U. S. to cope with the problem of how the East may understand the West. The U. S. Secre- tary of...
Yet, as he rested in a San Antonio Hotel, there was still good hope for him. Then, in the early hours of a morning, his heart refused any longer to respond to drugs. The doctor in attendance told him that the end was near. He slipped into coma and an...
Discussion, wearying and pointless, centred about the U. S. proposal for a central body to control production of the drug and a plan to decrease importations by 10% annually. Mrs. Hamilton Wright of the U. S. delegation brought up a new proposal to send expert committees into opium-producing countries...