Word: basement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basement of the church is set up as if for a church bazaar. Little booths roped off with string sell anti-war books (ten per cent off), food (coffee and sandwich for a fifteen cent "donation"), and bumper stickers (fifty cents). Others provide general information, housing arrangements, and the ever-present leaflets and flyers...
...Last January the Agnews moved from the handsome 54-room Governor's mansion in Annapolis to a nine-room apartment in Washington's Sheraton Park Hotel. The capital has transformed the family's domestic life, which in years past consisted largely of lawn sprinklers, pizza, ping-pong in the basement rec room, Sunday afternoons watching the Baltimore Colts on color television. As Governor, Agnew could even have the Colts over for dinner from time to time...
...cost of construction varies sharply in the U.S. For a one-story, 1,400-sq.-ft. wood-frame ranch house with a basement, it ranges from $16,125 to $26,300, not counting land. The following comparative figures for the same house were compiled by Milwaukee's American Appraisal Co. In most of the high-cost cities, builders use union labor; in nearly all the low-cost cities, they use nonunion labor...
...Dunlop also pushed hard for greater contact between junior and senior faculty. He found money for his graduate students and chaired the Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty, which up graded the junior titles and asked higher salaries. He even moved out of spacious Littauer into the cramped basement of 1737 Cambridge, chiefly from his suspicion that junior faculty over there were keeping too much to themselves...
Funding problems caused the scrapping of a central computer center last February, and now will delay construction on both Science Instruction Development Labs (SIDL) and a large science library in the basement...