Word: sites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more a coincidence than an excuse and the word "sesquicentennial," of unhappy memory since its association with the Philadelphia Fair of 1926, has been studiously avoided in the publicity. To give New York's Fair elbow room, the Fair Corporation and the City of New York chose a site about 18 minutes northeast of Manhattan on a tidal wasteland outside Flushing, L. I. It happens to be a place where General Washington once complained of the mosquitoes...
Greece. Continuing his long delving on the site of ancient Athens, Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear of Princeton found the base of a statue bearing the signature of the famed sculptor, Praxiteles. The figure itself had vanished, but an inscription disclosed that it had been ordered by Kleiokrateia, daughter of Polyeuctus, wife of Spoudias. This woman was referred to in the 4151 oration of Demosthenes (361 B.C.), arguing a suit over the will of Polyeuctus, but scholars had not previously known her name...
...Cyclops of Greek myth was a giant with a single monstrous eye centred in his forehead, who sank ships by throwing boulders at them. Heading another Oriental Institute expedition to Tell Osmar, Dr. Henri Frankfort found evidence that Cyclops was not a Greek invention. On a Babylonian site at least a millennium older than Homer, the diggers discovered a relief carving showing a god with bow & arrow stabbing a Cyclops in the belly with a broad-bladed knife. Rays emanating from Cyclops' head indicate that he was a demon of light or fire. Despite the fact that his hands...
...sailed for New York on the French steamship Pireire. At his first glimpse of New York harbor-so he always maintained-he immediately conceived the idea for a gigantic statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World," picked Bedloe Island with its abandoned ramparts of Fort Wood as the ideal site. Ashore, he talked hard about his project to various rich citizens, went down to Long Branch, N. J. to see President Grant about...
...football coach. Slip Madigan began to turn out teams which, since 1924, have won 86 and tied seven of their 114 games against some of the best football brains & brawn in the U. S. In 1928 the Brothers felt so good they sold the College's old Oakland site for $750,000, borrowed $1,500,000 on a bond issue to ld a big new plant in nearby Moraga Valley. On July 1, 1934 St. Mary's bond holders missed their interest on $1,370,500 worth of bonds not yet retired, have received none since...