Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fanny Brice, actress: "At Atlantic City I underwent an operation to make my nose conform with my style of beauty. The New York Times remarked editorially that I had had the organ 'condemned and torn down and was about to erect a high-class modern structure on the site...
...bite of the blood-sucking fly, bedbug and similar insects from infected rabbits, squirrels and rodents. The disease is seldom fatal to humans, but is accompanied by pains, septic fever lasting from three days to six weeks, prostration, swollen and suppurating lymph glands, and ulcers on the site of the bite, followed by several months of convalescence when the patient is unable to work. It is found in rural populations in harvest time. It has been mildly epidemic in Utah for five years, and cases have been reported from Cincinnati, Charlotte, N. C., and elsewhere...
Babylonia. The joint expedition of Oxford University and the Field Museum, Chicago, under Prof. S. Langdon, has uncovered the ruins of Kish, an early capital of the Accadian kings, eight miles east of the site of Babylon, including the great tower of the temple to the war god Ilbaba, built about...
...Tiber's muddy banks have yielded up a colossal statue of Minerva. It was discovered by workmen on the site of the old Emporium which was a landing place for marbles shipped from Greece to Imperial Rome. Antiquaries declare that the statue might have been dropped into the mud by Roman stevedores...
What pedestrians on the Bowery and Park Avenue, Manhattan, took to be a military parade of 14 armored motor cars, with submachine guns bristling from their portholes, was in reality the Adams Express fleet moving the assets of the Bowery Savings Bank from its old site at the Bowery and Grand Street to its new building opposite the Grand Central Station on Forty-second Street. As the Bank's assets totaled $202,000,000, there was good reason for this elaborate protection...