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Opinions vary on how long it would take to construct a conveyor belt system between all the college rooms and class buildings, but this would be the logical answer to Saturday attendance. Proctors and resident tutors would be in charge of setting their charges on the belt and tagging them with the correct class tag. A conductor, preferably a Crimson Key or Student Council member, would push off riders at the appropriate place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Rake's Conveyor | 5/7/1954 | See Source »

...banks are lined with great pink-tinted palazzi, decorated with balconies and frills of cake-icing beauty and delicacy. Last week Venetians and Venice-lovers were engaged in a heated esthetic and sentimental wrangle with the advocates of progress and modern architecture. The issue: a proposal to construct a house designed by U.S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright on a curve of the Grand Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wright or Wrong | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Presently, the chief occupation of both groups is the, fight against a bridge which the District of Columbia wants to construct across Potomac. The bridge would be built partially upon Theodore Roosevelt Island, a muddy islet in the Potomas named in Roosevelt's honor by Congress, and the associations are against its disfiguration. The associations also have continued to support the collection at Widener with a yearly subsidy and jointly make an annual award of the Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal...

Author: By Stephen L. Seftenberg, | Title: Widener Roosevelt Library: A Useful Monument | 3/10/1954 | See Source »

...have been able to absorb this increased demand," he explained, "but if the rate continues, it might be necessary to construct additions to the dormitory system." At present, there are only a few of the 470 housing units left unoccupied in Richards and James Halls, bufit three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate School May Need Rooms For Housing Men | 2/11/1954 | See Source »

Last week, in a momentous Chicago speech, AEC Commissioner Thomas E. Murray declared that the iron age of atomic energy may soon end. "The commission," said Murray, "has embarked on a program to construct a full-scale power reactor . . . We hope to have it in operation in three to four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Age: New Phase | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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