Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Academy of Medicine, to which philanthropic foundations recently gave approximately $2,000,000 for building and endowing a new structure, has raised an additional sum of $250,000, largely from its own membership, for the purchase of a site. The Academy carries on a progressive program of medical and public health activities...
Monte Mario is said to be the site of a proposed Protestant Church in Rome, which, from its superior elevation, might cast a shadow on St. Peter's. "A fantastic story, revived by the Paris Tribune," said Rev. Dr. Antipple, President of the nonsectarian Protestant school on Monte Mario. " Our plans do not include the building of a monumental church. They have been approved by the city authorities. We understand the beauty of St. Peter's as much as does anyone else," said Dr. Antipple...
...months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to be rich in fossil flora and fauna, including mastodons and mammoths, which are believed to have wandered eastward from their source in central Asia. Popular expectations with regard to the " missing link " of human evolution and the site of the "Garden of Eden" are hardly likely to be realized, however...
...married to an adored wife, Saskia, but ended in the bankruptcy court, a widower. The charming Saskia was the subject of countless pictures. A new art center, which will contain no school of instruction, will be established in Paris, as a gathering place for American artists in France. The site will be the Hotel de Lausun, a large and fine building on the He St. Louis, in the Seine. The purchase will be arranged by the National Academy of Design. In the opinion of Edwin M. Blashfield, President of the Academy, this marks the "coming of age of American...
...unprecedented number of fires in Canadian Catholic churches. These losses seem insignificant when compared with the great building plans of Roman Catholics. Fifteen million dollars' worth of contracts have been signed for the coming year. The Knights of Columbus have invested $1,000,000 for a site on 51st St., Manhattan, where they will erect a great building for recreation and other institutional activities...