Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sons of Virginia, which Professor Coolidge cited at the installation of Edwin A. Alderman, has been molded by battle and distilled by bottle. At the outbreak of what is referred to as "the late unpleasantness between the states," 9,000 students had matriculated at the colonnades of the Jefferson rotunda. Of these 2,481, almost 30 percent, fell at Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and many are buried within the famed serpentine brick walls of the 500-acre campus...
With something of the air of a farmer hoping for rain, H.A.A. Director William J. Bingham '16 dreams about football crowds and probably counts turnstiles in his sleep. Yesterday he was cornered in the sanctity of his office in the Union rotunda. Less than 100 feet away, ruthless undergraduates were paying $15.00 for participation tickets and heaping great oaths on the Harvard Athletic, Association. Questioned about finances, Bingham smiled the sad, wise smile of the afflicted and said, "This year we will spend about $700,000 gross. Of this, $100,000 will come from the sale of athletic participation tickets...
...next afternoon, 3,500 people crowded into the Library's rotunda to watch a public ceremony. Lincoln's great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, and General Grant's grandson, Major General Ulysses S. Grant III, were introduced. So were 14 authors of more than 100 books on Lincoln. None spoke; they simply stepped up on a platform, bowed silently, and stepped down...
...from all over India, the holy men trudged to Delhi, set up camp along the bank of the Jumna River. There the sadhus huddled around holy fires and chanted appeals to the Universal Force "to save earth's children from destruction." In groups they picketed the Parliamentary Rotunda (where the Constituent Assembly was meeting), Cabinet ministers' homes, the Government Secretariat. They shouted slogans: "Absolute Good unto All," "Cow Slaughter Must Be Banned," "Woe unto Evil...
...performed a perfectly executed pincer movement in which the locks were removed from these doors. This move was backed by the military forces of the pretender, Talmadge." Then, while the curious alternately booed and cheered and occasionally shot off firecrackers, he took over an information desk in the capitol rotunda...