Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three suggestions were made: 1) To build an extension behind the north transept of the Abbey on the St. Margaret Church side. 2) To build a cloistered extension behind Henry VII's chapel, adjoining Charter House. 3) To erect an independent hall of fame. A site suggested is that of the Westminster Hospital, opposite the Abbey...
...dispute was engendered when the J. G. White Corporation of Manhattan announced that it had obtained a contract from Ras Taffari, Prince Regent of Abyssinia (otherwise known as Ethiopia) for Empress Waizeru Zauditu, to build a $20,000,000 dam across the Blue Nile at Lake Tsana...
Whereupon the British Government let it be known that it would permit no nation other than itself to build the dam, holding that it had power to prevent the undertaking by virtue of the Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902, signed with Negusa Nagasth (King of Kings) Menelik...
This project, like its sister scheme of a Franco-English tunnel under the Channel, has long been mooted. According to U. S. engineers, it would be "child's play" to build it, owing chiefly to favorable submarine conditions, cheap electrical power for boring and a plentiful supply of skilled labor...
Coach Jack Kershaw is using as many Sophomores and Juniors as possible in an attempt to build up material for next year's team...