Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still it was converted into a fort. Louis XIV, who disliked other men's monuments, had it blown up. Seven...
...home. France has given him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and honorary citizenship in Paris. His benefactions have made him Dartmouth College's Grand Old Man. Since 1927 his masons have been rebuilding the western face of the Trophy of the Alps, with an interior stone stairway ending in a great stone block which pivots open to a fine view of the Mediterranean and the road to Monte Carlo. Such relics as his men dug up he installed in a museum on the spot. Last week he stood before Augustus' renovated Trophy and gave...
...Sampson was the man who muscled up the stone in the City of Mecca. It weighed...
...slum, got mixed up in an attempted murder, and ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw. Shocking to the Goncourt Academicians mainly for stylistic reasons (says Defender Daudet: ''It is written in Parisian colloquial speech, a very special language, superficially lazy yet fundamentally exact"). Journey to the End of the Night will shock many...
Deputy sheriff William Yeschet, who operates the Crawling Stone Lodge in the vicinity reported tonight that the manhunters believed they were near victory...