Word: restituta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building I have the right to insist that the structure shall remain as I built it!" Architect Warren planned to top the library with a heavy balustrade of floral pillars so shaped and intertwined as to spell out suggestively rather than distinctly the inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). He has always claimed that this inscription was written and entrusted to him by Belgium's late famed hero-prelate, Desiré Cardinal Mercier. To alter the wording by so much as one letter would, he said, not only outrage...
...University was enjoined to permit Architect Warren to erect his inscriptional balustrade Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta, on the ground that it was part of the original architectural plan approved by University authorities years...
...Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta." ("Destroyed by Teutonic Fury; Restored by American Gifts...
...DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FURY; RESTORED BY AMERICAN GIFTS" is the way in which most people would translate the Latin sentence, "Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta...
...Belgium and the United States are framed in the high balustrade which surrounds and crowns the building; in this balustrade is interwoven an inscription describing the destruction of the old Library and the fact that the restoration is a gift of the American people. "Furore Teutonica Diruta.--Dono Americano Restituta...