Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Open house for both Harvard and Radcliffe at 7 p. m. tonight in Barnard Hall's basement will start Signature magazine's spring term competition, Helen McCaig '51, editor-in-chief, announced yesterday...
Residents of Thayer Hall's Middle entry were temporarily deprived of lavatory facilities late Monday night when a main burst, flooding the basement floor with over a foot of water...
...Graham Greene's view of such enormities will find six pieces in the book worth careful reading. One is an early story of childhood called The End of the Party, concerned with a small boy's helpless integrity in face of an overpowering terror. Another, The Basement Room (recently made into a movie called The Fallen Idol), suggests the disastrous effect on a small boy of being made a responsible agent in an adult affair. A third, Brother, examines the troubles of a man who acts according to his principles, does his duty as a citizen, and gets...
...unlikely, for example, that the changes will include facilities for smokers. As it is, girls studying in the Fiske Room not only interrupt their own studying when they go out for a cigarette, but also distract non-smokers. If smoking were limited to one room, perhaps in the basement, the cost of effective ventilation would not be extravagant and it would be a considerable convenience to all girls. Another universal complaint, which will probably not be fully corrected in the new scheme, concerns the straight wooden chairs. They might have done very well in the more straight-laced days forty...
...cooked" for a month in neutrons. The process changes part of their normal iron into radioactive iron 59. Packed in 300-lb. lead cases, the "hot" rings are shipped to Richmond, Calif, and stored in a thick-walled closet (called "the cave") in the Research Corp.'s basement...