Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the season's 22 calibre matches will be held in the basement of Memorial Hall where a range was constructed last year by the Military Science Department. As coach the team hopes to have Sergeant Easterling, Marine Corps champion and winner of the President's Cup, who coached them last year. Beside the 22 calibre matches in Memorial Hall there will be weekly 80 Springfield shoots...
...Yard's now sprinkler system turned on the Freshman Class last night much to the chagrin of men living in Grays Hall. Sleepy members of the Class of 1938 were aroused by the noise of the sprinklers in the basement and flocked to the corner of the Yard near Lehman Hall, in various stages of undress...
...nothing serious was the matter and according to Captain Mahoney of the Yard Police the trouble was caused by a broken pipe in the basement. About two inches of water covered the floor of the cellar but no damage was done to the first floor...
Still in keeping with the general policy the old steel smoke-stack which previously helped to decorate the side of University Hall, has finally been removed. Smokeless since 1914, when use of the boiler plant in the basement of the building was discontinued, it had, nevertheless, remained a part of the Yard's scenery until this summer...
...Francisco's general strike last month, quiet-spoken Publisher George Toland Cameron of the Chronicle took rooms for his newshawks at a hotel across the street from his plant, filled his basement with foodstuffs, bided his time. When the strike hit the city's food supply, he fed his employes in the Chronicle's cooking school on the second floor of his Gothic building, cheered up photographers who returned from the embattled Embarcadero with smashed cameras, had a pat on the back for red-eyed, coughing newshawks who had been through the No-Man's Land of teargas, brickbats, bullets...