Word: vistas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more were being rounded up as prisoners. But defiantly, 75 miles away, a lone Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast fighting planes, zoomed over the Potosi airfield where President Cardenas had established his headquarters at Vista Hermosa, dumped four ineffective 25-lb. bombs and high-tailed it back to his secret air station in the hills...
...held not in the finished Gothic nave but in the crossing, at the intersection of the two transepts. Bishop Manning proposes to give the Romanesque choir and sanctuary Gothic vaults, to match the 124-foot vaults of the nave, and to open the nave so as to provide a vista from portal to altar, a distance, in the bishop's proud words, of "a tenth of a mile...
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Allston's friend and pupil, whose fame for inventing the telegraph has obscured his gifts as an artist. One of the finest landscapes on display was Morse's View From Apple Hill, Cooperstown, New York, a long, radiant vista of Lake Otsego...
...done it all absolutely without charge or fee, paying even his own expenses. "What a glorious opportunity it was for the lot to fall to a Jew to strike a blow for the emancipation of the colored race! ... It has given me a vista of 14,000,000 people ... in the chains of bondage...
...Life Camps this month to record how life goes there. They have a high mark of eloquence to shoot at, for Percy Leo Crosby put it all down in pen & ink years ago in the old Life with a single drawing of a tattered youngster gazing at a rural vista and saying: "Gee, it's so beeyoo-tiful I'd like to give somebody a sock...