Word: surmounts
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...something to think about. And in fairness to the originators, Time Out suggests the awarding of an "H" to Messers Noyes and Hammond with suitable insignia. For instance, one house could have a rococo "H" with two lumps of sugar. The other, since Houses must be distinctive, could surmount the blazer with an "H", and perhaps, a lemon...
...second one in fairly simple French. Granted that the language requirements demand a reading knowledge of either one or the other, it seems a little unfair to expect that a student who had taken or was planning to take French 2 or German 1a would thereby be enabled to surmount a sight translation...
...made it his favorite plaything. And most things that Samuel Insull plays with are sooner or later made to pay. Thus, though Architects Graham, Anderson, Probst & White had orders to stint nothing in making Chicago's opera house second to none for luxury, they also had orders to surmount the edifice with a 21-story office building. In the auditorium are rose-velvet boxes, rose-brocade chairs, a gold and ivory proscenium arch, lush carpeting, amber lights, spacious cloak rooms, a rose-and-gold foyer with towering columns of Roman travertine. Around and over the auditorium...
...peacetime crops from Europe. For many a year Cuba Cane has stumbled on, always seeming on the verge of either collapse or sudden success. But coming on Jan. 1, 1930, is an obstacle no company in poor shape could meet-the maturity of $25,000,000 debentures. To surmount this obligation, a complete reorganization was planned, chief feature of which is that present debenture holders will receive new debentures plus a bonus of common stock in the new company. Last week, after 84% of the debenture-holders and 80% of the stockholders approved the plan, Cuba Cane asked...
...inspects his charge by airplane. Father Griffin plans to shorten the devious route from Texas to his parish by flying over as much of the northern territory as possible. When he arrives he will be confronted by difficult tasks. Hostile native sorcerers are slippery hummocks of the spirit. To surmount them his cross must be his alpenstock...