Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the appearance of a professional diver, 40 men, a dozen spectators, a rowboat, and a pneumatic hammer or air-compressor on Memorial Drive below Dunster House yesterday afternoon, the suspicion dawned, especially on the minds of Dunstermen, that the Strauss Hall feed had assumed new proportions. Such was not the case, however, for although water is the subject out into the river, in order to speed the drainage of storm and surface the drainage of storm and surface water from the vicinity...
...work on Flagg Street is not quite as unusual; its principle phase deals with the excavating of a trench down the street and across Memorial Drive. The whole project, according to Thomas P. O'Neill, Cambridge Superintendent of Sewers, should be completed by February...
...actual excavating of Memorial Drive, there is a chance that the City Water Department may play a part, if any of the pipes start leaking...
...engines congregated in front of the Owl Club. After five minutes futile search for the blaze, the good news came that it was really in front of Leverett, so throwing their machines into gear, the smoke-eaters dashed backwards down Holyoke Street, across Mill Street, and thence to Memorial Drive, where they behold a pile of smoldering leaves, apparently not by mischievous urchins some thirty minutes earlier...
TIME, Nov. 5 said "Starting a new slum clearance drive in Rome, Benito Mussolini bounded to the roof of a moldering hovel, swung a housewrecker's pick with spectacular results. As Il Duce's suspenders snapped and he grabbed for his trousers...