Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buildings, most built around the turn of the century, ceilings are falling, stairways have started to pull away from the walls. Window casements are rotting, beams sagging. In the Broadway school, the Harvardmen noted that "classroom floors vibrate when walked upon." Some of the windows that lead to the fire escapes in the Prospect school are either screened or nailed shut; Middle Street and Pidge schools have no fire escapes at all. Six schools have no sprinkler system. Of the Cottage school the Harvardmen warned: "Any internal fire that would cause the collapse of the wooden staircases could trap children...
...brainstorming session took place on Laboratory, an experimental program on Boston's young (22 months) WGBH-TV, the only nonprofit educational station in the Northeast.* By insisting on distinction, and paying the occasional penalty of seeming dull, WGBH-TV has not only built up a loyal audience, but also finds ways to draw Bostonians away from the more frenetic fare of the commercial networks. It accomplishes this on a $400,000 annual budget, roughly the cost of one network spectacular. Of that amount, one fourth comes from the $3,000,000 endowment of its proud, richly endowed parent...
...overcome Toscanini's dislike of recordings (he was infuriated by their failure to reproduce the sound of his orchestra as he remembered it), Walter Toscanini built a sound studio in the billiard room in the basement of Toscanini's house in Riverdale (the Upper Bronx), piped tape-recorded music up to a giant speaker in the living room. When the spirit moved him, the old man sat in the living room listening to and judging the full-volume thunder of his orchestra. If a note or a phrase displeased him, he moved his head almost imperceptibly from side...
There is little chance that Sheehan's method will be used to manufacture penicillin V commercially, since it can be made cheaply by fermentation. But now that the delicate molecule can be built up and modified in the laboratory, new kinds of penicillin can be produced. Using Sheehan's methods, Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories at Rahway, NJ. has already synthesized ten new penicillin compounds that cannot be made by fermentation. Dr. Sheehan's great hope is that the new synthetic penicillins may prove free of natural penicillin's tendency to cause serious allergic effects...
...sophisticated Romans built of enduring stone, brick, concrete and mosaic, and Britain is strewn with the ruins of their villas and fortifications. But the barbarian Anglo-Saxon bands that invaded Britain after the Roman legions withdrew in the 5th century lived in crude timber buildings that rotted away with the centuries, leaving only the faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories...