Word: rosewood
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...hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches and yellow marble columns. The surrounding building is a mammoth jewel cabinet of teak and rosewood and gold. Sir Stafford would find ample and luxurious space for meditation in one of its 54 bedrooms...
...nearly two years he has run United States Housing Authority, with $800,000,000 to lend to local authorities for slum clearance, more millions to grant in outright rent subsidy gifts. On July 4 he celebrated with the formal opening of USHA's first four completed projects: "Rosewood" in Austin, Tex.; "Brentwood Park" in Jacksonville, Fla.; "Lakeview" in Buffalo, N. Y.; "Red Hook" in Brooklyn. He had 41 other projects under way. By year's end he hoped to have 200 going. With his $800,000,000 authority he would have provided new, airy, sunny, low-rent housing...
...visit, 490 miles of the Trans-Iranian Railway (Persia's name officially became Iran in 1935) was completed-a winding, climbing engineering masterpiece through the Elburz Mountains between Bandar Shah and Bandar Shahpur. Iran's soldier-dictator, Reza Shah Pahlavi, had already ordered his gold, silver & rosewood private...
...people in Harvard know that the music department possesses a fine Dolmetsch Harpsichord. Of these people, a very few know that it now lies in a miserable state of disrepair, dried out by years of steam heat, so that the ivory inlay has half fallen out of its rosewood case. A very few know that quill tongues are broken and bolstered with felt, that its leather is rotten, that its legs are tied up with string, that its pedals are falling to pieces...
...very simple bedroom. A heavy white bandage was wrapped round his head, and he wore the olive drab uniform of a general. The scarlet sash of the Grand Cross of Leopold was across his chest. There was an ivory crucifix in his bruised hands. The plain rosewood bed on which he lay was covered with white lilacs. Two yellow altar candles burned steadily at its foot, two black-gowned nuns prayed at its head. His clock ticked steadily away on the bedside table...