Word: basement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement of Harvard's School of Dental Medicine, Biochemist James H. Shaw and his assistants worked for more than ten years with cages full of white rats and cotton rats, with sugar-rich and sugar-free chow, with test tubes and dissecting boards. The twofold aim: to find out how certain sugars promote tooth decay, then to find a way to forestall it. The Sugar Research Foundation, Inc., set up by the sugar industry, bankrolled the project for a total of $57,000. Now, in the Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Shaw reports his findings...
...remodeling of the basement of B entry of Adams House is scheduled to begin this week and to continue through the spring. The renovations will provide a new studio for Sacks' group and others...
...poet and the jazzman met in a San Francisco basement, aptly named The Cellar, to discuss a fusion of the arts. "In Now with Winter," said the poet, "we try something slow and soft. In Artifacts we want a sax solo, like the thrill is gone...
...Curtis, where he studied under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher studied under Artur Schnabel in Manhattan, got his biggest professional boost five years ago when he won Belgium's International Concours. Nowadays when the three are in Manhattan together, they reserve Steinway's basement on 57th Street every free evening and test new pianos ("We are always on the lookout for pianos that are good for Mozart and also Prokofiev") and play for one another until midnight. When one of the trio is playing well, there is nothing but the sound of the piano...
HOUSING Deep Dish To bring year-around outdoor living indoors. Builder Hillard Man last week showed a basement swimming pool in his new Eden Roc development at Smithtown, Long Island. For an additional $800, Man's new split-levels and Cape Cods ($19,500 to $25,200) will include a 12-by-18 ft. pool. The center of the indoor pool is deep enough for diving and its sides are shallow enough for wading...