Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign is the result of a statement issued by the house's Board of Trustees that if the building is not repaired quickly it will decay beyond repair. In soliciting donations, Welldon has sent out letters to a list of alumni chosen for their interest in Angle-American affairs...
...learning of the house's decay, the trustees offered it to the British National Trust, a government organization for the protection of memorials and parks. The Ministry of Works replied that it could only accept fully endowed properties for the trust...
...Kremlin, the Congressional Library's research staff found, "has been hiding its lesser economic strength...to propagate the idea that the economies of the West are in decay...The present economic capacity of Western Europe, the U.S. and Canada is significantly greater in terms of absolute magnitudes, diversity and flexibility than the combined strength of the Soviet bloc...
...tried in bits and pieces which, said President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Housing, "simply will not work. Occasional thrusts at slum pockets in one section of a city will only push slums to other sections unless an effective program exists for attacking the entire problem of urban decay." Part of the problem lies outside the worst slums, in neighborhoods where middle-income homeowners have let their property become shabby...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 and Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, some set to work on the details. The group declared that the planned memorial "must ever prove an unfailing source of inspiration and elevated sentiment ... to every succeeding age more dear, and more sacredly to be preserved from dilapidation or decay." The committee also predicated that the Hall would have "unity and simplicity of line and mass." And when the alumni presented the building to the University after its completion in 1876, the Corporation called it "the most valuable gift which the University has ever received, in respect alike to cost...