Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stone Without Mosque...
...received a cutting from your esteemed paper dealing with the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the proposed Nizamiah Mosque in London, by H. H. the Prince of Berar on June 4 [TIME, June...
...snapped water mains. The nine-story Great Eastern Hotel-whose terrified guests rushed out of their rooms more or less dressed-had settled four inches. Most of Manila's buildings, designed to withstand quakes, are built of bolted timbers. They stood the shock better than old Spanish stone houses and churches outside the town, many of whose walls and roofs crumbled. Before total damage had been estimated, Commonwealth-President Manuel Quezon-who had been dressing for a banquet in his Malacanan palace when the earthquake struck-proclaimed a state of emergency, threatened severe penalties for anyone who tried...
...judge by the writings of travelers, philosophers, novelists and the like, most foreigners in China are on the trail of something almost as visionary as the philosopher's stone. But in fact what entices most foreigners to China is the vision of doing business with China's 400,000,000 potential customers. For the past 25 years head of a Shanghai advertising agency, Carl Crow now reveals in 400 Million Customers where he got to while following that vision. An unpretentious, anecdotal account, it is pleasant reading because it deals with a novel part of the Chinese scene...
...seen on the floor-mimeographed sheets from New York Housing Authority's Langdon Post maintaining that the per-room limit should not be less than $1,750. Senators owning homes in Washington figured that that was more than their own houses had cost; a comfortable 10-room, brick & stone dwelling even in Washington, they thought, ought not to cost much over...