Word: basements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manual arts shop in the basement, John Nelson, 17, was working on a lathe. His teacher was standing about five feet away. There were 15 other boys in the room. Then a big mass of sand and what looked like a ball of fire tumbled in. Something hit John Nelson's leg and slit the front of his pants. It felt "like a charley horse you get playing football...
...keep accurate check on Mother Earth, three instruments will be installed, one to record north-south tremors, one for east-west motion, and a third for up-and-diwn movements. In 1928 the Department set up a seismograph in the basement of the Geological Museum. However, the instrument was so delicate that an earthquake was recorded whenever a class was dismissed or a truck rumbled by. Even the movements of the night watchman could be traced on its record...
...descended, but her triumphal sweep through the bronze portals of the store was cut short by two ex-Grand Dukes, clad in full regimentals, who guarded and barred the way. And they pointed as if saluting in review, to an open elevator shaft nearby, that projected from the basement to the sidewalk...
Barrels of sorghum molasses that the soldiers could not carry off were overturned in the basement and this syrup scraped from the brick floor was the family's only sweetening for some weeks thereafter...
...result of remodeling done by the Maintenance Department of the University, the space formerly occupied by the barber shop in the Union basement has now been turned into a darkroom for the use of Freshman Photo Group members...