| NOUN | a cornerstone | cornerstones | |
| SYNO | base | basis | cornerstone | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Cornerstone's website used to host a discussion forum called "Cornerstone Interactive".
- Rosenblatt laid the cornerstone of the new school.
- There is no specific order of dealing in the 12 piles in Morehead and Mott-Smith's rule set, while Arnold's version states that the dealing should start at the top right cornerstone, dealing downward and ending at the bottom left cornerstone.
- The cornerstone was laid on June 9, 1870. A brass box that served as a time capsule was deposited in the stone.
- President Woodrow Wilson laid its cornerstone in a ceremony on October 13, 1915.
- In 1882, the settlement was renewed as a moshavah by immigrants from Romania, who named it Rosh Pinna ("cornerstone") after Psalm 118:22: "The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone".
- Davie laid the cornerstone for the first public university in the country, the University of North Carolina (now UNC-Chapel Hill), near New Hope Chapel in Orange County in 1793 just several weeks after George Washington laid the cornerstone for the United States' Capitol in the newly rising Federal City.
- At the beginning of construction, the bishop or his deputy blesses a cornerstone for the church.
- "Eckstein" means "cornerstone" in German, reflecting the younger Eckstein's perception of himself as a cornerstone of the mining industry.
- Contains the first cornerstone ever laid in Flushing.
- On April 26, 1825, the cornerstone for North College was laid by Vermont Governor Cornelius P.
- The United States Capitol cornerstone laying was the ceremonial placement of the cornerstone of the United States Capitol on September 18, 1793.
- A suspicious incident happened in July 2005, when three men dressed as Grant County Highway Department workers stole the cornerstone from the building in the early morning.
- On June 8, 1989, two plaques commemorating the 150th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone at Kawaiahaʻo Church were erected underneath an 1889 slab that honored the life of missionary Hiram Bingham I on the centennial of his birth.
- The cornerstone of St. Leo's Church laid on September 12, 1880, at the northwest corner represented a concept much more significant over the next 136 years than a chunk of concrete.
- President Hoover laid the cornerstones for the Labor/ICC building on December 15, 1932.
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