Word: gores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of the battle which briefly raged last month between Winthrop and Leverett House, a forty year old dormitory named Gore Hall gained fleeting public fame. Probably few of the contestants knew that the cause of the controversy had an ancestor also named Gore Hall. For eighty overcrowded years, it was the Harvard University Library...
...University Library outgrew its 150-year old quarters and President Josiah Quincy determined to build a new library. After failing to get any money from the State Legislature, he received a large gift from Christopher Gore "to build an enduring monument to preserve the memory of Massachusetts' former Governor and Senator, Christopher Gore." Allegedly designed after King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England, the enduring monument, Harvard's new library, was built in a style euphemistically labeled by contemporaries as "Fourteenth Century Gothic...
...copy in the library, nor a tolerably good atlas, nor the works of Wordsworth, nor the lives of Judge Story or of Doctor Channing or of the Chancellors of England." Immediately they raised money to buy more books for the library. This was the beginning of the end for Gore Hall...
...librarian, Mr. Sibley, bought up great quantities of books with the extra cash. Although Sibley, called the "guarding genius of the library," aimed to please distinguished men like Longfellow and Lowell who frequented Gore, he disliked students who "couldn't tell a book from a ball." Walking about "with a light tread and quick movement for a heavy man," he guarded his growing collection well, admonishing readers about doubling over pages and careless turning of the leaves...
...Albert Gore for the Associated Press: "How deep the Nautilus can dive is a secret. But there is no secret that I had nervous twinges as she plunged down in excess of 300 feet. How fast she will race through the dark, briny depths is also a secret. But it was the thrill of a lifetime to break all previous records in this respect as the midnight hour approached . . . The food we ate was cooked by atomic power. The water we drank was distilled from ocean water by atomic energy. The submarine was not only driven but lighted, heated...