Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson Parker, 3, of Orange, N.J., sent to play in the basement of his apartment building because the weather was bad outside, strangled to death in a coin-operated washing machine...
Remnants. Analyst Phelps had made the understatement of the week. The gap between stock prices and stock earnings had narrowed to the point where the stockmarket seemed like a bargain basement. But even the hand-me-down prices were not tempting enough to investors...
...were appearing every year. Matthews Hall, called "the finest college dormitory in America," had been built two years before; it marked an all-time high in student luxury. No longer would the men have to go out to the pump on cold mornings, for there were bathrooms in the basement. Weld and Thayer, also recent acquisitions, were only slightly less magnificent...
Since their ousting by the more sensitive-eared Psycho-Acoustic laboratories from the basement of, Memorial Hall, the club has squeezed its target practises between those of the Army and Navy ROTC groups, from 4 to 6 o'clock each afternoon and at evening sessions on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday...
...best jazz of all was to be heard in a basement club on the Near North Side called Jazz Ltd. There the big name was grizzled old Soprano Saxman Sidney Bechet (TIME, March 31), whose last club engagement in Chicago was at the Deluxe Cafe in 1918, when he came out of New Orleans' Storyville after the whorehouses were shut down during World War I. Old Sidney, who had recently been favoring one side of his mouth because of an infected tooth, sounded all the better for a new store tooth. Playing alongside him was a trombonist named Munn...