Word: basement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endowment of $8,500,000 places it among the respectable poor of good U.S. educational institutions. Carleton's top professors are paid meagerly, its physics and biology facilities are old and cramped, its students need dormitories, and its only stage is a makeshift affair in a 110-seat basement theater. To mend the bare spots in its academic Mackinaw, Carleton has set itself an enormous task for so small a college: to raise $10 million in the next four years...
...Needy who suddenly appear at Christmas to prey on its pocketbook. Rather, it is to remind all of us that long after the trimming and decoration have been packed and stored away for another year, there will be so many people huddling, like Mrs. Bella H., in some dank basement apartment, waiting for their cataracts to finish the job, waiting for their hearing to go, waiting for their remaining teeth to rot away...
...back door. Before he could get out of the car, flames were shooting out of the school. At 2:42 he gave the first alarm. At 2:44 the first company of firemen got there, sirens screaming. The situation: a flash fire had started in the rear-basement stair well of the school's north wing, had been shut out of the first floor by fire-prevention doors, was now engulfing the second floor -fire doors open-with five classrooms, upwards of 200 children...
...find out what had gone wrong. Known point was that the second-floor fire doors had been left open, making a flue for the flames. Not known was how the fire had started at the foot of the stair well itself. A cigarette tossed into wastepaper in the basement? Spontaneous combustion...
...Owen explained that "the Masters of the older Houses hope they will be able to match the glory of Quincy and the Leverett towers in some humble way." Quincy and the Leverett addition offer private bedrooms; Quincy offers built-in refrigerators for each suite, and a "grill" in the basement...