Word: sites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...danced again, in a series of cinema films linked together and called The Immortal Swan. Producer was her husband, Victor Dandré, who was releasing the pictures for the first time to raise funds for a Pavlova Memorial Fountain to be executed by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles on a site already approved in London's Regent Park...
...affair came to an end, and to win back his waning popularity, Titus gave freer rein to the antiSemites. Josephus' wife and son left him; his other son (by an earlier marriage) died, partly through his neglect. He went back to Judea, visited the desolate site of what had once been Jerusalem, saw how vexed the land was by its Roman conquerors, by a dangerous new sect called Minaeans or Christians, by the iron orthodoxy of the Jewish doctors of the Law. Sadly he returned to Rome again, determined to be neither hidebound Roman nor hidebound...
...many years the firm of Kouchakji Frères has had a practical monopoly on excavations on the site of ancient Antioch, the city in Asia Minor where Christians were first called by that name. In 1910 a party of Arab workmen who had often been employed by the Kouchakjis came upon a heap of buried treasure that contained, among other things, a cross, three book covers and two chalices all of silver and all of excellent workmanship. The finders, with a shrewd idea of their worth, traded cross, covers and chalices to a syndicate of Arab merchants, who after...
...most numerous group of investigators maintained that the building was sinking, and that this would cause the break. The were supported by two important bits of evidence: one, the site of Eliot House was merely a reclaimed swamp and not to be trusted anyway; and two, the pipes were broken about a feet away from the foundation wall of the building, just where the leverage would cause the greatest pressure...
Since 1892 Columbia has stood on her fourth site, where her new domed Roman magnificence stands in vivid contrast both to here unpretentious Colonial beginnings and the modern motorized millieu...