Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem then was what to do with the information. Disclosure might give away the workings of the U.S. atomic detection network; it might be better if the Russians did not know the U.S. knew. But no one wanted to let the Russians make a triumphant announcement at a moment of their own choosing, when the news might become a massive propaganda coup. President Truman decided to announce the news immediately...
...thousand tons of steel rest on 50,000 cubic yards of concrete. The mammoth concrete piers on which the main truss rests go down some 83 feet below the water line--making these huge abutments the largest of their kind in the country. Dozens of homes were transported intact away from the 60 foot strip that the bridge's approaches carve through Chelsea and Charlestown. In many respects the engineering was equally as remarkable as in the construction of the John Hancock building. And for all the danger that operating at such heights meant, only one worker was killed during...
Unless Harvard and Columbia play to a tie at Baker Field today, one of two jinxes which will ride into the game must go out the window. The Crimson hasn't won a football game away from Cambridge in three years; on the other hand, in their seven meetings with Harvard, the Lions have never triumphed...
When the new chairs, 1400 of them, arrive in a few days, Sever's famed carved benches will be on their way to storage too-far tradition's sake, the chewed up boards are not being thrown away. The earliest carving yet found dates to 1882; later works include innumerable Harvard-Yale game scores, incised checkerboards, and the masterpiece, an entire crucifixion scene with attendant saints...
Although the varsity eleven will be at Baker Field, the local area won't be entirely devoid of Crimson action tomorrow. Five miles away at Medford, Bruce Munro's soccer team will open its 1949 season against Tufts...