Word: cellar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This second and smaller section looks slightly more like the conventional cellar, with the ceiling now criss-crossed by bare pipes. Several rooms, such as the noise and anechoic chambers, are of a completely technical nature. The curved eastern end of the building squeezes several rooms into pie-shaped sectors...
...current grievances, such as they were, were technological rather than political. Chief villain was the household chore. Cried Laundry Worker Amy Ballinger: "What about the man who buys you an icebox or a sweeper as a gift? A man marries you and says 'You go down in the cellar and do the washing.' The hell with him." Piped Edith M. Stern, a magazine writer: "The mechanical gadgets are just the old-fashioned spinning wheel in modern dress...
Racking up their second victory of the campaign, the Bunny quintet climbed out of the league cellar. Kirkland, which sustained a 34 to 27 loss to Leverett, slid to the bottom rung of the court ladder. The teams were even at 16-all at the half-time intermission but the victors, paced by Bucky Thorn's ten points, moved ahead as the second period got under way and coasted...
Kirkland's quintet matched Winthrop, undefeated league leaders of the first round, basket for basket in the first two cantos of play. The Deacons, however with cellar honors in their first seven games, fizzled out against the Puritans' steady play in the last quarter...
...Lawrence has lost some of its talent to injuries and the sick list, but it looms as a big threat, even to the top four teams. Maine and Amherst are big glaring question marks. As for Vermont and Williams, most observers see them as competing candidates for the cellar...