Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tamburlaine the Great. As U. S. citizens sink their every prejudce in praising Lincoln, so Timur is always upon approving lips at Samarkand. The largest slab of jade known to exist is his tombstone (6 ft. x 17 in. x 14 in); and every child of Samarkand has stood in the great vaulted octagonal hall where the green jade tomb reposes, surrounded by six family tombs of white marble...
From his old, gray slab before University John Harvard, almost blithely, steps forth and limbers his jade green legs preparatory to moving over to the stadium for the formal welcome of these play boys of the Jersey world. Nor is he completely bored by his duties as host. Cambridge, is such an ancient, gloomy place! John is really quite gay about the young visitors--and, frankly, it is rumored that he is going to continue gay, even late into the afternoon, wild animals to the contrary not with standing...
Some time ago, perhaps 15 million years, there were watery depressions in the enormous slab of territory that is now called Mongolia-reedy lakes along whose shores fed cold-blooded brutes of preposterous, hobgoblin shapes and proportions. Some were small, only eight or nine feet long, with skins no thicker than ordinary linoleum. Their necks were like fire-hose, ending in froggish heads. Their posteriors stuck out like a lizard's, into muscular tails. Their forelegs were futile flippers but astern were haunches like a bull ostrich, for swift, stooped running on webbed and clawed feet. Many of these...
...celebration" over, the Herr President sought a dignified and modest beer hall. Caught as he munched a black slab of pumpernickle between foaming glasses, "Old Paul" said: "I shall start soon for Bavaria on my vacation...
...fraternal lodges to which the late President belonged deposited emblems of their orders in the steel casket set in the cement foundation. Then Mr. Dawes, with the very trowel which the Mason-President last used?at Ketchikan, Alaska, in laying the cornerstone of a masonic lodge?placed the marble slab in place...