Word: footings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story Leverett towers, which are built in a 100-foot, "residential B-3" zone, and Quincy House, built in a 65-foot C-3 zone, both conform to city laws...
Rome, in finding for the Church, sustained the "broad" interpretation of the Act set forth in Lewis' recommendations. Residents of the area near Sparks and Brattle Sts., where the Church had planned to build 22 feet above the 35-foot limit, had hoped for a strict reading of the law, leaving Cambridge the right to limit, physical proportions of the buildings...
...Bond stood with his foot poised against the outboard escape door, which would open when pressure inside and out was equalized. After 25 seconds, he felt it give, and yelled: "On the bottom!" Tuckfield closed the air inlet. They were now up to their necks in water, and breathing air at a pressure of about ten atmospheres, 134 p.s.i. above normal. Instead of being searing hot, as they had feared, it proved comfortably warming. But there was no time to enjoy it. Not a second could be lost, or they would begin to suffer nitrogen poisoning-Jacques Yves Cousteau...
...effect. Columbia came to the aid of the varsity's faltering offense by fumbling eight times, with four of the bobbles being recovered by Harvard. Quarterback Charlie Ravenel bounced a pass off end Hank Keohane's chest and into the hands of center Pete Eliades on the Lion one-foot line to set up the first score. Ravenel tallied first, followed by Tom Lawson, Albie Cullen, and Glenn Haughie on a pass from Ron Johanson. Halfback Chet Boulris' punting kept the Lions at bay, and Boulris gained 66 yards rushing on 12 carries...
...some oddball, armed with a bucket of white oil paint and bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there for all Bambergers to see, stood a legend in German, sloshed in letters a foot and a half high: "Elvis Presley-My God." Dreamboat Groaner Presley was on U.S. Army duty some 100 miles from the scene of his deification...