Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boylston Hall is a Plain, granite building of the style of architecture generally devoted now to jails" says an 1870 issue of Appleton's magazine. During that year, paradoxically, the building contained enough chemicals to blow the best jail apart; and a quarter century later exploded into "one of the worst fires in recent years...
...streets which the survey mentioned to open to parking include Massachusetts Avenue, Boylston Street, Plympton Street, Prescott Street, Oxford Street, McCarthy Road, Kirkland Street, and Quincy Street...
...unusual gifts go, BIGELOW, KENNARD COMPANY, at 384 Boylston Street in Boston, has the unusual gift idea of the year. This pair of binoculars, strong, useful, and good-looking, folds up into its leather case to the size of a wallet. It sells for only $18.00. Also at Bigelow's is this Parker butane lighter, which will mystify friends and provide a year of lights to the heaviest smoker without refilling. It costs...
This glassware is sold only at SHREVE, CRUMP, and LOW'S at Boylston and Arlington Streets in Boston. It goes for $6.00. Shreve's invites you to come in to browse among their different items for ideas on that little gift that must be just right...
Since 1942--when the project was instigated by Boylston Professor Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian of Congress, and Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library--Harvard has received an average of 2,000 books per year under this plan...