Word: 116th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebration of its bicentennial, the City, for a nominal thousand dollars, has presented Columbia with 116th Street, which had long run through the middle of its campus. The University has closed the street to traffic, moved in earth, and planted trees and grass in an effort to close out the dirt and noise of a pressing New York. With these trees, a new quiet, and even higher respectability, a great University begins its third hundred years...
Lights in Sever and Emerson will begin burning until late in the night once again this week as the University opens its 116th series of Extension Courses. The courses are given under the sponsorship of the Lowell Institute and in conjunction with all Boston schools of higher learning, though the majority of instructors and all classrooms are Harvard...
...front was not necessarily a sign that the Reds were using the truce talks only as a screen for preparing an offensive or that they expected the talks to fail. The U.N. was also diligently plugging away at a buildup of its own. The Air Force was diverting the 116th Bomber Wing, originally earmarked for NATO, to Korea. The Navy was sending over the carrier Essex, two cruisers, a complement of destroyers. Though the Army and Marine Corps were rotating personnel rapidly, the flow of replacements made sure that there would be no weakening of ground strength...
...fields will take a sizable area of arable soil, and French politicians, their eyes on the farm vote, are reluctant to do anything about getting the necessary land. The first U.S. air reinforcements, the 116th Fighter Bomber Wing, due to land in France by July, will probably find no bases available there, may have to go to Britain instead where construction of new fields, able to handle jets, is well under...
...When I see you on the street," President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked his Columbia University students, "will you please say 'hello'-because some people who don't belong to the university occasionally pass me on 116th Street and they think I'm crazy when I say hello...