Word: roman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board John deButts has a commanding view of the World Trade Centers. The rest of the building, as far as I can tell from the lobby and the hallways, seems to be a cross between a medieval castle and the Pentagon. The lobby is crowded with simple Roman columns, which part to reveal a statue set into the marble wall. It is the figure of a man with one arm outstretched, one cocked at the elbow; the head thrown to the side completes the modified Christ-image. Under each arm blazes an inscription, one reading IN PEACE...
...Crane '72 said yesterday he asked Harvard officials for the space, which would become necessary if the city decides to demolish the branch library and build a new one. City inspectors last week condemned the branch, which is located on a storefront on Huron Ave, and owned by the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston, saying it was unsafe...
Several systems of transliteration to relate Chinese script to the 26-letter Roman alphabet have been used in the U.S., Egan said, but until recently Wade-Giles was the commonly accepted system...
...mention income tax time as when "the ides of April draw near." According to the ancient Roman calendar, however, the ides of April were not April 15 but April 13, as shown in this mnemonic jingle that I learned in Latin classes...
...Research should be limited to human embryos in the first 14 days of development after fertilization, the time when implantation into the womb is completed in a normal pregnancy. For many Roman Catholics, and others, the embryo deserves respect as a new human life from the time of fertilization. Catholicism has also opposed IVF because of Pope Pius XII's arguments against all unnatural methods of conception...