Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interior entirely, construction workers had to replace all of the old wooden beams and window sashes with steel ones. Hoisting the 54-foot steel supports for the new floors through the windows without knocking down the building's shell made it "the toughest job I've ever come across," Aspasquella observed...
...Sept. 21 rejecting a motion by Councilor Joseph D. DeGuglielmo for a 30 day trial of the new street pattern. Backers of the proposal claimed it would relieve the traffic through Harvard Square. Buses and other vehicles going north to Arlington and North Cambridge would be able to cut across behind the Yard...
CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 29--Slashing across the South Carolina coast with peak winds estimated at 140 miles an hour, Hurricane Gracie swirled inland Tuesday night...
Another three weeks of bickering, and the salary problem was solved. Although the state House voted to raise pay for teachers only, the Senate tossed aside all pretenses of economy and priority, giving faculty members hikes of $430 to $1,261, and an across-the-board raise of $360 to all state employees. Political compromise may have caused smiles on Beacon Hill, but the entire maneuvering cost the state one of its finest educators and administrators. Some senators resented Mather's resignation for the political sympathy it aroused and they misinterpreted his motives; one senator accused him of "trying...
...Bowling Palace at 4 a.m. after the night shift ends.) New England, the heart of smaller-sized duck-and candlepins. is giving way to the tenpin boom. Between them A.M.F. and Brunswick claim this year they will add some 25,000 new automatic pin-setting machines in bowling alleys across the nation...