Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-aircraft batteries still blazed away at the bombers, stores of munitions were still intact, and the vital railway was still open. But the second objective was more than fulfilled. Terror-stricken thousands fled to the safety of the paddy fields and their "lucky hills," pockmarked with the huge stone armchair graves of their dead. Thousands more surged up to the gates of Hong Kong, only to be refused admission because they could not produce the required 20 Hong Kong dollars...
...giving it up this month to move to the French island of Illiec, off the north coast of Brittany. Mme Carrel, who lives most of the year on the neighboring island of St. Gildas, recently secured it for them. With the barren island went a three-story stone house of nine big rooms. Illiec provides all the seclusion that the shy and, for their children, understandably frightened Lindberghs desire. But when the English Channel tide is out, the Lindberghs may walk over almost dry rock to St. Gildas...
...Wheaton College project has been called the most important competition in U. S. architecture since the world-wide competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower in 1922. No such soaring mass of steel and stone, as the 36-story Tribune Building, the College's proposed art centre is nevertheless a sizable, $500,000 building, requiring a theatre to seat 500, a small auditorium for lectures, an art library, workshops, lecture rooms, studios, galleries, soundproof practice rooms for the music department...
...Elizabeth Rogers Roberts, 32, daughter of Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court; to Charles Alfred Hamilton, 33, sales employe of Bridgeport Brass Co.; in Kimberton, Pa. At the wedding the Supreme Court mustered one less than a majority: Chief Justice Hughes, Associate Justices Roberts, Stone, Black...
...Cracked down on 13 major oil companies and eleven of their officers. Accused of illegally fixing the margin of profit for independent jobbers in the "second Madison oil case." these defendants fortnight ago pleaded nolo contendere (TIME, June 6). Last week. Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone of Madison, Wis. fined them a total of $360,000 plus $25,000 costs...