Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find that one of our greatest problems is located in the vicinity of Hanover, New Hampshire," reads a semi-official statement of the W.C.T.U. The Harvard Stadium clean-up squad, entrusted with the task of clearing away empty bottles from beneath the stands, has often sympathized with that organization after visits of the Indian team to Cambridge. It is only too clear that serious temptation lies in the way of any clean American youth at Dartmouth College...
...Governor's Palace swayed forward, and fell in a cascade on several passing cars. Thousands of rotos and their families, caught in their beds, had no chance to move before their adobe homes fell on them. Thousands more got into the streets only to be buried beneath falling buildings...
...That year, in London, a handsome young man named Allen Lane, 33-year-old son of an architect, quit his job in his uncle's publishing house (the famed Bodley Head) and started publishing pocket-size, paperbound Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer's Germany Puts the Clock Back...
International's biggest producer is the Frood Mine near Sudbury, Ont., discovered by Prospector Thomas Frood, who sold his claim for $30,000. Deep beneath tall smelter chimneys and black slag mounds, its shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...
Early one morning last week a sleepy-eyed fish porter trudged through the grimy streets of Manchester. Suddenly a terrific explosion in the mains beneath the street hurled his body into the air. He was killed and his falling body seriously injured a passing postman. Almost at the same moment, Bam! another blast ripped open a street half a mile away. Bam! a third blew up the pavement a few hundred yards further on. Terror-stricken early risers, certain they were being bombed from the air, grabbed gas masks issued during the CzechoSlovak Crisis and rushed into the streets...