Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...champion of religious culture. His younger brother, the dramastist-poet Prince William, Duke of Sodermanland, is perhaps better known abroad (TIME, Oct. 19). But the activities of Crown Prince Gustaf, in connection with the World Church Conference at Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq), his archeological excavations on the site of ancient Asine, and his work as a member of the Swedish Olympic Committee, have attracted considerable quiet notice. His most widely bruited remark was allegedly made to Lady Louise of Mountbatten (formerly Princess of Battenburg) at the time when she was being pressed to marry him by his second...
...weekly, and on its top (65th) story a hospital. Within it drinking and smoking, and possibly Sunday journals, will be forbidden. Ten percent of its earnings will go to support a medical mission at Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa. The builder is a realtor named Oscar E. Konkle. The site is close to those of the Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, International House and the site of the proposed Park Avenue Baptist Church...
...certain members of the Rhode Island chapter of the Institute of Architects inspected Mrs. Whitney's idea and found it "appalling." They notified the memorial committee that they thought that the monument was "of an architectural style entirely alien to our city and our tradition and . . . inappropriate. The site chosen for it is . . . a corner lot. . . ." Mrs. Whitney's hopes fell. Sculptor Montana went to work on a new opus to be called "The Supreme Sacrifice...
...Bulletin, which is published every six weeks, is to treble its size in the January issue. A set of cuts of the buildings to be erected on the new site across Boylston Street from the Stadium, will be run. The circulation of the paper is to be widened to include prospective students at the Business School, and all those connected with the institution...
York House. On the site of "a hospital for 14 maidens that were leprous," dedicated to St. James the Less, Henry VIII built a palace, which he inhabited with Anne Boleyn until he tired of both. With the burning of the great Palace of Whitehall, the sovereigns of England from William III to George IV maintained there the Court of St. James's, still a synonym for the Court of Britain. There Charles I slept out the night before his execution; there the ill-starred Marie de Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France, found a refuge; there George...