Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class-conscious ladies passed in an orderly fashion through the gates of the Berkeley stadium, some 25,000 merry rooters climbed up an elevation known as Tightwad Hill, which overlooks the field, and from which every play can be seen as clearly as if you were sitting on a slab of cement you had paid three dollars for. So the two camps-the purseproud and the gay-waved flags at each other, while down on the green parchesi-board the two teams wavered up and down until Washington...
...more active competitions on the pig fields, they take refuge in their books, often memorizing entire volumes for the sake of the Prophezzors' praise. If that praise rings loud enough, they are shown more special honor. A special committee of Prophezzors awards to the men chosen a huge brass slab called for some strange reason, a "key." This device is worn in a very showy position just over their stomachs and bears the legend: "Reading maketh a full man. Behold my surfeit...
...Babylonia, at Ur of the Chaldees, the joint British Museum-University of Pennsylvania expedition continued to exhume the architectural works of Nebuchadnezzar, his ancestors and his grandson. The major find was a limestone slab, 5 by 15 ft., decorated with a portrait and biographic scenes of King Ur-Engur, builder of the huge ziggurat of Ur or Moon God's tower. The date of the slab was put at 2300 B. C., its historic importance being equaled only by its value as a specimen of Sumerian...
...present, Woodrow Wilson's body lies beneath a six-inch slab of concrete and a three-inch slab of marble in one of eight catacombs in the crypt beneath Bethlehem Chapel of the unfinished Washington Cathedral...
...French expeditions which were active in China before the war had failed to discover this chapel. It is, with one exception, the westernmost example of North Wei culture. More of its origin Mr, Warner believes can be determined by the interpretation by other authorities at Harvard of a stone slab found nearby and which he brought back with...