Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Election of the Harvard Pistol Team captain will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at the pistol range in the basement of Memorial Hall, with three candidates from the Junior class, all of them Harvard record holders, up for election...
...female figure in moulded concrete known as The Mountain (see cut). Seven men and a three-ton truck worked from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. to get it to the museum. Winches, ropes, pulleys and masses of wadding were used to hoist it from the basement of the Ettl Studios to the street level. Sculptor Lachaise was too nervous to watch but telephoned every ten minutes for a report on progress. Standing on the sidewalk before the museum he screamed with dismay when three fire engines bore down on truck and Mountain just as they were backing...
Apparently a careless biddy, in the one o'clock exodus, had left one of the trap doors of the incinerator open. A few minutes later a passer-by flipped a cigaret into the opening, whence it dropped to the basement on a pile of refuse. It took the services of the whole House janitorial staff to extinguish the blaze, which threatened to asphyxiate the residents of the upper floors...
...basement of the Victoria & Albert Museum and in the Buddhist Room of the British Museum last week curators and assistants were ripping open boxes and crates, carefully lifting out ancient bits of precious porcelain. Busy with a group of 200 antique Chinese paintings. Orientalist Laurence Binyon prophesied that a 13th Century landscape that he was cataloging will be one of the British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases...
Among the things which onetime King Alfonso XIII left behind when he scuttled out of Spain in 1931 was a battered packing case in the palace basement, crammed with jewels worth $5,000,000, and marked "E. de B." for Eulalie de Bourbon, his sharp-tongued aunt. Spain's revolutionary rulers, who loved the Infanta Eulalie for her republican sympathies and the way she scolded the King, put the case away in the vaults of the Bank of Spain, promised to send it to its owner in Paris. Last week, having waited four years for the Government to keep...