Word: basements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was a fire in the basement of the City Hall, and soon shrieks of sirens and the roar of motors poured in the windows which had been opened to let the smoke pour out. This did not, however, deter the clerk from reading some matter-of-form letters. And curiosity, perhaps, but no surprise, moved many naive listeners when the President mumbled "The place is on fire" after each letter. As the fire sub-sided, though, they found he was saying "Placed on Fire...
Dean Willard L. Sperry, Chairman of the Board of Preachers will discuss tonight at a meeting of the Chapel Club the charge that there is no religion at Harvard. The meeting will be held in the offices of the Memorial Church (North basement entrance) at 8 o'clock. All members of the University are cordially invited...
Hidden deep in the basement depths of Widener Library off the corridor which leads to the stacks, is a small display of English, French, Italian, German, and United States World War posters. Coming at a time when this generation has heard more war talk than ever before, the exhibit is both interesting and timely...
...George and Queen Elizabeth last week were taking pathetically inadequate precautions, which will leave them just about at ground level in case of an air raid, not 60 feet down under. Read a United Press dispatch from London: "A bomb and gas-proof shelter is being built in the basement of Buckingham Palace for the King and Queen. It consists of two rooms which formerly were the maids' resting rooms. ... A large hole has been knocked in the wall of the Palace near the shelter to enable the King and Queen to escape to the Palace gardens...
...usual the CRIMSON is offering a year's free subscription to the first Freshman to hand in his study card in the basement of University Hall and get it approved by Mrs. Prindle, the Secretary of the Committee on the Choice of Electives...