Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...station operates through a transmitter located in the Barnard Hall basement which carries broadcasts over the 800 dial-mark to points within the dormitery quadrangle area. One Briggs Hall resident claims, however, that she once picked up a broadcast of a Choral Society concert through a third-floor radiator...
...looks to me like another chunk lopped off the long established supremacy of a Harvard education. I hope the equalizers are stuffed into some academic basement before they reduce Harvard education to the level of sloppy mediocrity that typifies most other American colleges. W. D. Mueller...
This caused some controversy between them. But eventually they bundled Janet's body up in a trunk, carted it to a rented house in suburban Queens, and buried her in cement in the basement. A few days later they turned up in Grand Rapids, Mich., and after suitable preliminaries, moved in with a new prospect-a pretty, 31-year-old widow named Deliphene Downing...
...knew a medicine which would induce an abortion, smilingly gave Deliphene a handful of sleeping pills. When the pretty widow passed out, Martha directed Ray to do something about her. Ray got a .45-cal. pistol and shot her in the head. They dug a hole in the basement, dumped her in, and cemented up her grave. Deliphene's baby cried noisily and refused to be comforted. Two days later Martha took her into the basement too, and held her head in a tub of water until she died...
Whether Molotov and Mikoyan have been moved nearer the throne or down to the basement, world Communism's next big goal is to digest its enormous gains of the last four years. The "incalculable machine" cannot stop where it is. The gears are clanking for new operations...