Word: basements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Military Science Department has on exhibition in the basement of the Freshman Athletic Building its annual display of small arms. The types of firearms range from the old revolutionary muzzle-loading flintlock to the modern automatic pistol and double action revolver...
Captain Thomas Phillips, chemical warfare officer of the First Corps Area, delivered his second and last lecture before the first-year men in the University R. O. T. C. yesterday morning. He will deliver the same lecture this morning to the second section of the course in the basement of the Freshman Athletic Building...
...desire any such terrible fate as that of being compelled to breathe air from Harvard 6 to befall the worthy citizens of Cambridge; but we desire, nevertheless, to suggest a way in which our present trouble might be obviated. . . . Let a powerful steam-engine be erected in the basement of Sever, with air-pumps of large capacity attached: let each student be provided with submarine apparatus, such as is used by divers; on entering the recitation room let him make connection with the pipes from the basement. By this means any one will in all probability be able to endure...
...Hill and the Paul Revere district, the heart of Revolutionary Boston. Many hurry along Tremont a tombstone is inscribed "P. Funel" for Peter Faneuil, founder of the Hall. And how many as they step off the escalator, stop to notice the Park Street Church, staunch religious edifice whose basement once housed the store of a retail liquor-dealer, now metamorphosed into a tea-room...
...collars, spear-head money, "memory sticks", and numerous other articles illustrating the customs of the West African tribes. These objects, which will form a part of the African collection at the Peabody Museum, the third largest collection of its kind in the country, are now being classified in the basement of the Museum and cannot be put on public exhibition for some time to come on account of lack of cases to hold them...