Word: rotunda
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...will complete the fifth focal point of Major Pierre L'Enfant's famed 18th-Century plan of Washington, the Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and White House forming the other four. Emperor Hadrian's Pantheon was dear to Thomas Jefferson. Monticello, his own home, and the Rotunda of the University of Virginia are adaptations of its design...
...Freshman interested in the Freshman Track Managership who has not yet entered the competition should report at the H.A.A. office in the rotunda at 8:45 o'clock today or tomorrow morning, it was announced last night...
Venezuela's counterpart of the French Bastille is Caracas' vast, dreadful Rotunda Prison, into one of whose small cells there were sometimes crammed as many as 34 shackled prisoners. Last week the Government which succeeded the long reign of implacable Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez removed the last political prisoner from the Rotunda to a new prison nearby. The Rotunda was opened as a museum piece of past tyrannies. The public was cordially invited to inspect its square quarter-mile of horrors...
...Venezuelan public filed in politely, took one look, promptly went berserk. Men, women and children, whose kinsmen and ancestors had died in Rotunda, smashed everything smashable, lugged away everything movable, ripped locks out of dungeon doors, wrenched bars from window-slits. Exhausted by an orgy of rage against stone & steel, they filed out into the bright noon of Caracas...
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court held its final sitting for the 1934-35 term, adjourned for the summer. In the old Senate Chamber just off the Capitol rotunda where it has sat since 1859, it concluded its year's work by handing down a few inconsequential opinions, admitting a flock of freshmen attorneys to practice...