Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular period in the history of Egypt, all the volumes of Hakluyt's Voyages-as if he hoped to calm his mind with facts. Back at Stanford he prowled through the massive accumulation of facts in the Hoover War Library-the extraordinary collection then stored away in the basement of the Stanford library, with 175,000 books and pamphlets on World War I, the secret files of the German Intelligence Service, the world's largest collection of works on Communism, the documents of all the propaganda agencies working in Paris during the Peace Conference...
Housing for the 70-odd students in the Divinity School is provided by the rooms in Andover and Divinity Halls. Dean Sperry said, "The students are very comfortable since there are more than enough rooms to house them, and the cooperative cafeteria in the basement of Andover Hall solves the eating problem...
...Catherine the Great's palace was the "mechanical" wonder of the age: laden banquet tables which, on command, rose or sank through the floor. They were manipulated by "a forest of human hands" whose owners stood waist-deep in the habitually flooded basement. Frequently the ropes broke, the tables dropped, the operators were crushed to death...
...bootlegging, the U. S. underworld went to war. It was an internecine affair of ambush and the double cross. Along Jersey highways from the shore, where rum runners landed their cargoes, runners and highjackers fought it out in the night. In New York City, men were shot discreetly in basement saloons. In Detroit and St. Louis, guns banged on street corners, men died at high noon...
...shooting gallery in the basement of Memorial Hall will be the scene of several home matches which have been scheduled already. The five-man team will journey to New Haven to match shots with the Elis sometime in March...