foundation stone

But if you're already up to the first floor, how can you be laying the foundation-stone on Wednesday week?

The foundation stone was laid March 31, in the present year, and the building is to be completed by Christmas next.

We are all agreed that the ballot is the foundation-stone of our entire political structure.

That is the foundation stone, the corner and the base of our edifice, and upon it our Government is on trial to-day.

The foundation stone of a new science laboratory was laid by King George on 6th July, 1920.