Word: connection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...residents were able to block the use of another site for the transit facilities near Codman St. in Dorchester. They feared that the yards would lower property values and ruin the neighborhood. Milton town officials contend that the yards would fill in valuable and scenic wildlife refuge and, worse, connect Milton by land with Dorchester. Milton residents, mainly of middle and upper incomes, fear being closely tied to poorer areas in Boston. These objections will make the fight over the marshland an emotional one. But the Governor himself has said that he has made a moral commitment to the Library...
...even more than at present locales for training in applied social science. Both the pressure and the possibility to move in this direction will come, I suggest, in part from that small group of student customers who might welcome an opportunity to assimilate and interpret their experience, and to connect it with, rather than divorce it from, the curriculum...
When construction is completed next June, there will be no cars at all on the road between the northwest corner of the Yard and the fire station at Broadway and Cambridge St. The former roadway will be landscaped with grass, trees and shrubs; new sidewalks will connect the Yard with Lowell Lecture Hall, the Law School, and other University buildings in the "north campus." The project's total cost to Harvard will be about $3 million--$2.8 million for construction and the rest for administrative expenses and landscaping...
There are also plans for a possible underground link with the proposed Cambridge Common Garage--a huge parking structure which would be located beneath the Common. Another possibility is an underground walkway--perhaps equipped with a moving sidewalk--to connect the MBTA station with the Kennedy Library...
Gambling has existed in every society. The American Indians bet on the different markings on concealed wooden disks, the ancient Siamese on which mussels would open ahead of others. Some scholars connect gambling with soothsaying, calling it a secular form of divination...