Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked on the building. Dietz somehow imagined Palmer Street without the trailer trucks that roar down it and block it by pulling up on the sidewalks to unload. The street had a "village character," he claimed. If he had had the money, Dietz says now, he might have tried to develop the street himself...
When, early in the decade, the University was unable to acquire its first choice, the Bennett St. repair yards of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, it turned to a block of land behind Dunster House. Harvard owned most of the land in this area' lacked one crucial plot...
Harvard st. does not own that land, and last week's decision was to build around it. The site for the House will now be divided in two: most of the House will be built on the block behind Dunster (this area is bounded by Cowperthwaite, Flagg, and Banks Streets and McCarthy Road); the rest will be located across Cowperthwaite on a piece of land adjacent to Leverett...
University officials are unsure about their chances of acquiring the land in the immediate future. If Harvard does get it, the plan for the House will be modified to put it all on a single block...
Dividing Greater London into postal zones, the Graham organizers found supervisors for each zone, who in turn commanded subzone lieutenants and block captains. In all, 20,000 laymen were recruited to make "threshold visitations" to 3,000,000 London homes during the crusade, inviting people to the nightly rallies at Earl's Court...