Word: sundial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly 50 years the sundial behind Holden Chapel regularly and impassively marked the passing of the minutes with the passage of the sun. "On This Moment Hangs Eternity," reads an inscription engraved on its circumference, but the dial is destined to register the time of day no longer...
Armillary Sphere is a great sundial cast in the design of that ancient astrological instrument, the armillary. Man and woman repose at its base; the goat, the lion, the bear, the ram, pursue each other in its wheels, while the armillary seems to spin, with slow laughter, through interstellar space...
...Three memorials to the late Calvin Coolidge Jr. are to be erected at Mercersburg Academy, his preparatory school: 1) A cross in the new chapel, given by Mrs. Coolidge; 2) a "sunshine corner," consisting of a series of bird baths, a sundial, benches, flowers, shrubs, etc., suggested by Mrs. Coolidge for the campus; presented by the school; 3) a portrait of Calvin Jr. to be painted by an artist as yet unnamed...