Word: annexation
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...there was hay to be made that summer, but the season was short. In September, when the girls left Grays and the ones from the "Annex" -- Radcliffe -- returned to take their places, Selective service head General Louis Hershey announced that every able-bodied man who passed his twentieth birthday was sure to be drafted. And there were no 2-S deferments then...
...Bacchanalia. Von Stuck's million-mark palazzo, begun in 1896, fell into decay after his death in 1927, but an aging daughter lived amid the ruins until 1961. Opened last month as a Jugendstil museum, the Stuck-Villa pays its way by housing four art galleries in its annex, a modern-art museum upstairs, a restaurant in the wine cellar...
...veritable orchids, Architect Victor Horta. Although four of Horta's buildings have been redesigned, destroyed by fire or demolished, the 66-room manse that he did for Baron van Eetvelde, Belgium's first Governor of the Congo, is preserved much as Horta left it. Moreover, in the annex of the hotel lives Architect Jean Delhaye, a kind of one-man Belgian fin de siècle society who is directing the reconstruction of the home Horta built for himself in Brussels, so that it can open next fall as a museum...
...class of '72 officially "is." At 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning, 1373 letters of acceptance were postmarked at the South Station Postal Annex and sent on their way to the members of next year's freshman class...
...than any other city in the U.S. And in Chicago, when a collector develops a taste for art, he is,likely to treat himself to gargantuan helpings. Walls full of it. Rooms full of it. When the rooms fill up, he will glass in the porch or build an annex. When these are full to the rafters, he simply buys another house...