Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adequate proof of the proverb that "One man's meat is another man's poison," if nothing else, has emerged from the guerrilla struggle between the Harvard Maintenance and the United States Post Office Departments which has been raging in the basement of University Hall to such an extent that Martial Law has been declared in the University News Office...
Answering the increased interest, which has been shown in the activities of the Photographic Club, a new darkroom will be opened in the basement of the Union this week, Douglas Mercer '40, chairman of the Union Committee, announced last night...
...aristocrats and other Rebel sympathizers are raided, the zealous comrades proudly hustling cartloads of worthless chromos, plaster statuettes and other knick-knacks back to the Junta. ¶ Though the Prado has been bombed by insurgent planes, all of its treasures have been saved. They were moved first to the basement, then to the vaults of the Bank of Spain, finally to Valencia. One of the last pictures to leave was Velasquez' greatest picture, the Surrender of Breda, better known as The Lances...
Mind has at last triumphed over matter, and the Maintenance Department has finally interceded to settle a mail box crisis in the basement of University Hall...
...only was the expense of digging it out terrific, but diggers hit a well which flooded the basement dressing rooms. On Feb. 10, 1936 the show went broke, rehearsals were temporarily abandoned. The backers - rich and loyal Jews like Presi dent Maurice Levin of Hearn's, President Alfred A. Strelsin of Reliance Advertising Co., Banker Felix M. Warburg, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post- had already put up $250,000, were unable or unwilling to continue bearing the full financial responsibility...