Word: slabbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the isthmus, near Punnuojoki, the Russians attacked in waves. The Finns stood their ground behind their granite-slab defenses, finally sent them running. The Finns said they took 33 tanks at Loimola and on the isthmus, three of them null In 17 days' fighting they claimed to have captured 250 Russian tanks...
...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
...such calls to prayer. From the crowded churches of a whole continent rose a spontaneous litany. Some religious footnotes to the week's headlined woe: >Closed to the public were Westminster Abbey's Royal Chapels, their tombs sandbagged, many of their effigies removed. On the black marble slab of Great Britain's Unknown Warrior in the Abbey's nave, a wreath of brown orchids inscribed "The Italian Embassy" lay beside a wreath from President Albert Lebrun of France. >Great Britain's Cardinal Kinsley told nuns they might wear headdresses that fitted over gas masks, recommended...
Just off Fifth Avenue on 54th Street, touched by the midday shadow of Rockefeller Center's enormous slab, stood the old four-story and nine-story mansions of the Rockefeller family. Town dwellings of the elder and younger John D. Rockefeller for, respectively, 40 and 2 5 years, the houses were abandoned two years ago to wreckers. Last week the site became part of a long garden. In the garden were evergreens, arbors, trees, wattle screens, and sculpture by Lachaise, Despiau, Zorach, Lipchitz. One fair spring night it was filled with hundreds of men with starched white bosoms...
Game wardens went out and arrested Earl Durand last week for killing a bull elk out of season. When they found him he was devouring a slab of raw meat from another creature he had just shot illegally, a beef...