Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth Street--upon whose sedate walls we look, with mixed-feelings, from - our offices--there are stalls for undressing members. Perhaps we should say stalls for members undressing. The stalls adjoin the showers. Hard by this room there used to be a barbershop. It was recently removed to the basement, and we have been diligent in trying to discover why. Inquiry among Harvard sons now reveals that the barbershop was moved because club members objected to being looked at, by barbers, while in the nude. Just something about it they couldn't stand. --The New Yorker...
...were for small houses suitable for mass production. If the design which won first prize ($100 plus employment) should be typical of the home of the future that home will be factory-fabricated at $3,000, will have a steel frame, modern simplicity of design. It will have no basement and part of the ground level will be open except for supporting stilts so that cars may be driven right into it. It will have the large glass areas typical of current European architecture but still claimed by some architects to be unsuited to U. S. weather. Second prize...
...bridge was last year named for Washington and where a scandal in connection with the sale of Washington seals has already occurred, a project was on foot to erect a replica of Mount Vernon in Bryant Park. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art removed from its walls to the basement Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, popular clamor compelled it to lug the massive picture up again for temporary hanging in its American Wing...
...activities is replete with ingenious and valuable equipment. Opened this fall for the first time, several groups of people have been the guests of Dr. Rice on inspection tours. Under his leaderships or that of Weld Arnold '18, instructor in Geography, such tours are apt to start in the basement where a solid cement vault stands at one end of the building. Within it, on a solid, sand-cushioned pillar, there is a rare type of clock, one of seven in this country. It is a product of English manufacture and its exceptionally delicate mechanism establishes for the institute...
...basement also will be photographic dark rooms for the aerial department...