Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berne scholars are translating into Turkish 1,800 articles culled from the Swiss Civil Code. At Berlin 700 articles of the German Commercial Code are being similarly translated. At Rome 700 excerpts from the Italian Penal Code are passing into curlicues unintelligible to most Occidentals...
...Golden Rose has long been the symbol by which the Vatican linked itself to notable current events, or expressed appreciation of outstanding acts of piety. Formerly it was given yearly to the incumbent prefect of Rome for guiding the reins of the Pope's horse in procession. Gradually the presentation has become rare until now, when the Rose to Elizabeth is only the second given in the last three pontificates. Only once has the Rose come to an American rulerLeo X sent it to Duke Frederick of Saxony, supplicating him, in vain, not to sustain Devil-seeing Martin Luther...
Professor Fairclough has taught the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome in the important intellectual centers of both the Old and the New Worlds. At the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, at the University of Berlin, and in colleges of the United States from California to the Atlantic Coast...
...Governor Cremonesi, within five years Rome must appear as a marvel to all the people of the world?vast, ordered and powerful as it was in the time of the First Empire of Augustus. You will make open squares around the Augusteo Amphitheatre, around the ancient Marcello Theatre, around the Capitol, around the Pantheon. Everything that has been built around these monuments during the centuries of decadence must disappear. Within five years the Pantheon must be visible from the Piazza Colonna through a wide avenue...
...will also liberate the masterful temples of Christian Rome from the profane parasitical constructions which now cling to them. Thousands of monuments of our history must stand out in their giantlike solitude. Then Rome will spread out above other hills along the banks of the sacred river even to the shores of the Mediterranean...