Word: rome
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...power. The old emperor, through his numerous extra vangances, has gone deeply into debt, and is unable to meet his obligations. Cinema Filmus, a moving picture man from Athens, relieves the embarrassing situation when he requests permission to purchase the moving picture rights for the burning of Rome. Nero, impressed by the magnitude of the offer, readily agrees to the purpose and the destruction of Rome by flames follows...
...Rome, C. A., Matthews...
Some of the dimensions are impressive. The Court of Honor, where the exercises and the masque are to be held is 360 feet square and the smaller ones 165 feet square. The library is crowned by a dome similar to that of the Pantheon in Rome, which rises 180 feet above the court or nearly 200 feet above the river...
...Private C. A. Rome '17, from Company D to Company...
...benefits to be derived from the Classics acquire a new importance in the face of present conditions. Never was there a time when English style needed so sorely the influence of the carefully wrought sentences of Athens and Rome. Never was there a time when young men needed so sorely a training in that mental concentration and in those orderly ways of thought which are bred by the reading of highly inflected languages. But it is paradoxical to champion the Classics on the ground of their practical advantages. Their chief value cannot be measured by materialistic standards. Since they form...