Word: slab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bronze entrance doors is a 50-ton monolith of black granite with the word LENIN inlaid in letters of red porphyry. Inside the doors, a giant hammer and sickle, carved in stone. Embalmed Lenin lies in an underground room 30 ft. square and 30 ft. high on a slab of black granite, under a convex bubble of glass. Just behind the tomb are the bodies of the Soviet "apostles" including two from the U. S.: John Reed of Harvard, Big Bill Haywood of Chicago. To correspondents, Architect A. G. Schuse explained his design: "For five years we have waited...
...Syracuse, N. Y., a thief remembered that there was $25 cached in the cornerstone of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, pried off a slab of limestone, helped himself to the money...
Three Cornell men, Carl Weagant, Dudley X Schoales, Joseph Rummler, last summer after being graduated, sailed across the Atlantic in the 40-ft. ketch Carlsark. Last week they returned to Ithaca, N. Y., presented a slab of rock from Ithaca, Greece, hometown of their avowed exemplar, Homeric Odysseus, to Cornell's archeological museum, declared proudly that in exchange for the slab they had set up on the heights above Greek Ithaca a rock carried from Cornell's campus inscribed "CORNELL FOREVER...