Word: tors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire (even to the world because of its "poets' corner"), but St. Paul's Cathedral is London's own. Standing in the heart of The City, according to legend on the site of an ancient Roman temple to Diana, its high golden cross is a landmark tor freighters on the Thames and for tourists on Fleet Street...
...months ago the actual work of reconstruction seemed to be finished. Still the enormous grey cloth curtain which tor so many years had shut off dome and crossing from the nave hung in its usual place Disregarding formidable notices: PLEASE KEEP OUT! A bold Daily Mail reporter ducked under the curtain on a voyage of discovery. The great empty vault bare of scaffolding except for a few neglected planks, was complete, looked exactly as he had remembered it. Somewhere in the distance one lone carpenter was hammering slowly on a board...
...Author. Miguel de Unamuno, onetime rector of the University of Sala manca (Spain's oldest), great philosopher of Spain, bitter enemy of the recent dictatorship, was banished by the late Dicta tor Primo de Rivera, spent six years in exile in France. Last February Primo de Rivera fell, an amnesty was declared (TIME, Feb. 10), Unamuno returned to Spain. Said he: "I return to work for the Spanish Republic!" Home only a few weeks, he was attacked by a savage dog in Zamora, had his left arm broken, his right hand badly torn...
...offer. Senator Dill explained that a private friend had said something about a judgeship but that he (Dill) considered it only a joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice President's gavel calling for the vote. Result...
Although Crowell had owned The Men tor since 1920, it was not until last autumn that it was resolved to dress the magazine up and try to make it sell. Founded in 1913, the earliest known Mentor was :a weekly. Each issue was devoted to one particular cultural subject?art, travel, letters. Foliowise, it also contained several loose-leaf rotogravure art reproductions. Then it became a semimonthly, then a monthly. Last September it fell into the capable hands of Hugh Anthony Leamy, a onetime associate editor of Collier...