Word: basement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offseason, the staff tends to outnumber the 20-odd guests. Most of these regulars are women of 60 or more-a couple of Americans, a few English, a stray Parisian countess or two. Twice a day they gather in the Winter Dining Room, a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation. All guests have their own tables; there is almost no talk. The Nabokovs have a cook and eat here only when they have visitors...
Wiggins said that new structural steel support coming from the basement, and additional supports across the floor would be needed. "This is a major job," he said...
Last weekend was club weekend at Princeton and an amazingly impressive group of girls from all over the Eastern seaboard were bussed in to trim the horns of the Princeton boys. But as clubbies and their dates splashed through the three inches of beer which accumulated on the basement floor of one of the clubs, few probably stopped to realize that Harvard's victory over the highly-touted Tiger lacrosse team Saturday was the third major upset of Princeton by the Crimson squad this year, all before Princeton crowds...
Eckerd learned the drug business from the stock room up, working in his father's pharmacy in Erie, Pa. "If you work for me, you start in the basement," ruled his father. Eckerd quit after six years, but later persuaded his father to sell him one of his several stores in Wilmington, Del.* In 1952, he ventured into Florida by buying three drugstores from an absentee owner. Five years later he sold his Delaware outlets, moved to Clearwater and began expanding. Doubling in size every two years for a decade, Eckerd Drugs has acquired a candy manufacturing concern...
...Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, who voted for the resolution, answered Mrs. Ackermann by saying that the "isolated cases of brutality are incidental. The fundamental question is whether you take a stand against self-proclaimed revolutionaries." Crane also said that he personally witnessed the pilferage of desks in the basement of University Hall. "I saw one young person take out of a desk a roll of stamps, put it in his pocket and walk off," he said...