Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basement, the laundry, last year found so old as to be useless, has been torn out and new machinery ordered, but, due to unknown causes, is as yet delayed. When completed, this unit will be able to turn out a better job than the old one in much less time, saving labor and money for other purposes...
Every Spring Room 3 in the basement of University Hall used to be the nearest thing to bedlam that Harvard had to offer. Freshmen and upperclassmen in anxiety over the rooming situation for the following year or rushing in with last minute selection of courses met in one swirling tide of hubbub...
...plan for an unobtrusive progress to Des Moines was the presence of four carloads of newshawks and photographers set to trail him. Three times along the 270-mile way the procession stopped at filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most of 500 people who had gathered outside, singling out for special greeting a small boy in a cowboy suit. At a tourist camp on Des Moines' outskirts the caravan picked up six more carloads of newshawks and greeters, plus...
...corporate history of Marshall Field. On State Street, at the southern edge of the Loop where cheaper stores congregate, used to stand the Davis Store. Field's bought it in 1923 for $9,000,000. Unfortunately, shoppers who wanted bargains chose to patronize Field's basement rather than the Davis Store. And shoppers who could afford quality goods would not be caught in the Davis Store on a bet. After ups and downs and changes of management, Davis lost, all told, some $3,500,000. Thus when Field's chairman, James O. McKinsey, last week...
...tell Superintendent Puffer what they had just told their school board about Principal Charles O'Hearn. Said Teacher Clarabelle Lindsay, 26: "He keeps putting his hands on me." Said Teacher Laurinda Cleary, 26: "On me, too." Gasped Teacher Mary Hammond, 50: "My, my! He took me in the basement and hugged...