Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lecky, pursued by some imminent horror, went to ground in the basement of the department store. Gradually, as he heard no sounds of pursuit, he got up enough courage to seek a better hiding place. His first weapons of defense were a kitchen knife, a fire-axe. Literate but not handy, he found his way to the sporting-goods department, got a supply of guns but had to read the instruction book before he could load one. His first shelter he contrived out of a platform of doors placed over an open compartment. Later he fortified a lavatory, provisioned...
...artesian well has been discovered in the basement of Straus Hall. Since Friday, water has been gushing in through holes under the South entry and pumps have struggled hard to remove it as fast as it enters. At first there was some disruption of the water system in the entry, but that was speedily remedied. Yet, despite this happy situation, the College authorities yesterday called in the assistance of the Cambridge Water Department to help uncover the still unknown source of the gusher...
...myself a special small portable radio set that goes with me everywhere I have to be busy in the house. In the kitchen where I spend most of my time, doggone it, with a big family to cook for, down in the basement when I do my washing, just because I don't want to miss news reports or occasional flashes. And then like a dunce I just have to get the Detroit paper to get more complete details of the news reports, although we have a very excellent small-town paper that comes regularly to the house...
...story Newshawk Othmann uncovered in the Smithsonian basement revived for a new generation of U. S. citizens a 93-year-old art scandal that eventually cost the U. S. Government $35,000. In 1832 architects, hurrying to complete the Capitol after its burning by the British in 1814, decided that nothing would be more fitting for the central rotunda than a heroic statue of the Father of His Country. For this they got Congress to vote $5,000, and commissioned U. S. Sculptor Horatio Greenough to carve the figure. Sculptor Greenough promptly went off to the soft Tuscan...
...clock without dial or hands regulates the other University time-pieces without deviating more than five seconds annually from the exact time. This enigma, one of the seven in the United States, stands inside a vault in the basement of the Geographical Institute, insulated from any vibration affecting the building by its foundation of sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted...