Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...
Before this year the Fogg has had no general endowment and has had some difficulty in defraying its heavy overhead. Although it has not announced any definite campaign for an endowment it is rumored that $1,000,000 is the final goal for which the authorities are working. If this total can be raised the interest from it should be sufficient to cover the large running expenses which have increased greatly with the expansion which the Fogg Art Museum and the Department of Fine Arts have undergone during the past few years...
...particularly fortunate that the Fogg Art Museum is the recipient of this fund for it has found increasing difficulty in meeting overhead expenses. This sum, large as it may seem, is not sufficient to cover all the expenses which the museum must handle each year, and in order to avoid any possible curtailment of its activities the endowment must receive substantial augmentation...
...light years away. This center of our universe is in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region, the brightest part of the Milky Way, which is visible here in the summer sky but too low in the south to be seen in all its glory. In Arequipa, Peru, the region is overhead and is truly a remarkable sight in that transparent atmosphere...
Next day, amid prodigious Nanking rejoicings, Sir Miles extended official British recognition to the new Nationalist state and presented his credentials as the first British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Nanking while Chinese airplanes zoomed overhead and with Chinese bands piping and squeaking God Save the King. A 21-gun salute boomed from the British war boat Suffolk anchored off Nanking on the mighty wimpling Yantze...