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Word: flooringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue-national defense-Symington has made it abundantly clear where he stands. He stands for more: more air defense, more brush-fire war strength, more civil defense, more missiles. In his first Senate floor speech, in June 1953, he assailed Republican plans to trim airpower, charged that the Administration was apparently planning to use a "firmly balanced budget" as its weapon in case of Soviet air attack. Since then, he has remained Capitol Hill's most outspoken critic of Eisenhower defense policies, and most persistent warner that the U.S. was dangerously underestimating Soviet military and technological strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Everybody's No. 2 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Although the sombre facade remains distressingly unaltered, save for stairs at the entrance and air-conditioning equipment atop the mansard roof, the interior has changed beyond recognition. Clever designing increased the usable floor space by 50 per cent without changing the hallowed limestone blocks. Architects Collaborative, which drew the reconstruction plans, gained space primarily by adding an extra floor, in fact one-and-a-half more floors the mezzanine and by eliminating the cavernous stairwell...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: A 'New' Home for Modern Language Instruction | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...History and Literature, Comp Lit, Classics, and Public Speaking (housed in the "attic"). With these numerous offices, the departments will have expanded facilities that will soon allow even the junior members to enjoy private rooms. Specifically-constructed Finnish furniture adorns seminar rooms, a modern library occupies the new mezzanine floor, and the lecture hall--when it loses its canvas protective covering--will have great beauty. "President Pusey gave us one directive," Levin comments, "Get a good-looking lecture room...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: A 'New' Home for Modern Language Instruction | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...House of Bronzes is itself a fascinating area. In the second week of August, three bronze vases were found under a melon patch not far from the highway. Hanfmann bought the land and excavations soon disclosed a luxurious room, full of bronzes of early Christian and Roman origins. The floor of a neighboring room glistened with elegant marble work. A fine statue of Bacchus stood in the corner of one room along with objects of a Christian nature and on the floor incised with Christian symbols. The mystery of the coexistence of the statute of the pagan...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Harvard Professor Directs Excavations To Unearth Important Relics at Sardis | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...masked Cambridge firemen hauled away an old refrigerator which routed students from C-entry of Dunster House early this morning. Escaping sulfur dioxide, from a broken tube in the relic, spread from the fourth floor to the basement, creating a mild panic among the Dunster ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sulphur Fumes Rout Sleepy Dunster Entry | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

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