Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program, "should" borrow another $100,000,000 annually from the Great Powers, and "should" issue $50,000,000 of "Reconstruction Bonds" every twelvemonth. Thus, said Mr. Sun, China "could" raise the annual $250,000,000 requisite to carry out the following Sun Program: 1) Complete the $3,000,000 tomb of Saint Sun Yat-sen in Nanking, a project already well begun; 2) Rebuild Nanking as a "modern capital," with a "White Hall" for the President of China and "Six Civic Quarters"− governmental, educational, commercial, industrial, residential and celestial−the latter to be the "Purple Hills Quarter" containing...
...carved prairie legends. His most startling deed was the placing of a dollar sign in stone above the bridal door of fashionable St. Thomas's Church in Manhattan. Last week, in Manhattan's Chapel of the Intercession, which he also designed, Architect Goodhue's memorial tomb was dedicated. Art Critic Royal Cortissoz of Manhattan and Architect Milton Bennett Medary of Philadelphia spoke. Musicians from the Philharmonic-Symphony played...
...humane custom to break the legs of the crucified to speed Death. But Christ died on the cross. Nevertheless, nervously, impulsively, a Roman soldier pierced the body with his spear. Joseph the Arimathaean asked for the body and buried it in a tomb he had intended for himself, where no man had ever lain...
...President Cabrera sent Assassin Jiron to the U. S. on a secret mission. His instructions included going to Mt. Vernon and piously laying a wreath on George Washington's Tomb...
Interesting were last week's despatches from the Cairo newspaper Mokattam that diggers have found the rich tomb of Solomon's favorite wife Moti Maris of Memphis, on the Mount of the Temple (Jerusalem's Mount Moriah). With the body was a scroll in which Solomon, supposedly, wrote: "When Moti poured the wine into the cups I noticed that Amerto [her malicious father] did not extend his hand. Nevertheless, I unsuspectingly raised my cup to my lips. Thereupon Moti snatched the cup and drank the [poisoned] wine herself...