Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Bekken, the request before theboard was filed by the Trust in order to expandits planned building beyond the limited height anddensity specifications for the site. If thespecial permits are granted, the Trust will stillneed to obtain a waiver from the Zoning Board...
Sollors says he first became interested in the field when he arrived in the U.S. from Germany at the height of the Watts Riots...
...Cambridge churches in the late 20th century have often not worried about the relative height of their buildings but about the depth and range of their social concern. Reaching out has been as much a motive as reaching up. They have been able to move horizontally--if not vertically--into the Cambridge community in a number of ways that are less religious but more social, educational and political. Within a mile's radius of the Swedenborg Chapel, we can find a history of such outreach that more than compensates for any physical restrictions. Consider the following three examples...
Despite the clear ability of churches to overcome physical restrictions and have more than just spiritual influence in the community, it is wrong to over-look the significance of space and relative height in the debate over the construction and shape of the proposed Knafel Center. Across the street from the home where Henry and William James once read the works of Swedenborg, on the side of Emerson Hall is inscribed a quotation from the eighth psalm, "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" President Lowell commissioned the inscription, overruling the original request of the Philosophy Department that...
...addition, the fact that the military is not a normal organization is shown by the fact that normal equal opportunity laws do not apply to it. People who are not of adequate age, height, weight or strength to perform the highly physical duties required of soldiers are automatically disqualified from military service in a way that would be patently illegal in the civilian world...