Word: vault
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week "the bugle which stopped the World War" was deposited at Les Invalides, the great Paris War Museum, where may also be seen the railroad car in which the Armistice was signed? the whole appropriately within a stone's throw of where Napoleon lies, locked in his enormous vault with the keyhole shaped like a letter...
...What vault has a keyhole shaped like the letter...
...only three other banks then existing in Manhattan. Its first building was the three-story, onetime home of Alexander Hamilton. Customers approached the counting room over a front lawn, on which thrifty first President John Slidell kept tethered his family cow. He slept in a room above the vault as a deterrent to marauders...
...Dumb Show. In the great dark vault of a cathedral on the Rhine stands a wonder-working image of the Virgin. A thousand candle flames flicker, their brilliance reflected in the gorgeous windows, in the golden vessels of the holy service. Worshippers come in throngs to pray, pale-faced nuns do their devotions and priests perform the sacred ritual under a mantle of incense and church music...
Besides winning third in the 600, Hoff created a new world's indoor record in the pole vault by leaping 13 feet and one inch. The former record, made by Nelson Sherrill of Pennsylvania in the 1925 Indoor Intercollegiate., was 13 feet...