Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly every girl asked for more bookcases. The one bookcase in the model (with a pathetic handful of books) was "too small for anyone but a freshman," someone said. "If the College realized the number of brick, cinder block and board bookcases now in existence in the quad they would take pity on the construction companies," said someone else. "A wall full," was one suggestion. One senior with tiny handwriting very neatly sketched her plan for combination bookcase and cabinet, and combination closet, cabinet and drawers...
Leverett and Quincy House representatives objected to interior construction of cinder block or raw concrete and, urged that the new House have finished interior walls. There was also considerable discussion of the relative merits of long corridors and small entries, but no clear consensus was expressed...
...people of Babylon builded themselves a great hall. And it had pastel cinder block and great graffiti and many windows. And in it there was much feasting and loud voices...
Their good work also earned them a number of handsome contributions (somehow the name Rockefeller keeps popping up when Advance's financial backers are discussed). Encouraged by their success, most of the Advance editors, who graduated last spring, deserted the warm, friendly cinder block walls of Quincy House and struck out for Washington...
...visitors' dressing room deep beneath the stands at Chicago's Comiskey Park, Charles Sonny Liston, 28, sat swaddled in towels and a white terry-cloth bathrobe. He stared at the green cinder-block walls for a moment, then turned his baleful, red-flecked brown eyes on Jack Nilon, his "investment adviser." "It's cold outside," grunted Sonny. "I'm gonna make it quick...