Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a month of construction, the Business School's Kreage Hall is little more than a hole in the ground (lower picture). Because the proposed building is situated on marshy lands, workers have had to overcome an additional difficulty...
...years the PBH basement became so crowded that it was known as the "Black Hole." In the fall of 1934 dissatisfaction reached a new high, and a committee formed to investigate possibilities for a separate building for commuters alone. Hemenway Gymnasium was the committee's first choice, although it also considered Memorial Hall...
...were brought from the North. They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground...
...especially emphasizes the "regardless of race or creed" doctrine, taught in "that atheist post-hole," when referring to Harvard. "That's a blasphemy, that's what it is," he cries...
When the Yorkshire Electricity Board was appointed in 1947, the colonel knew just the right spot for its headquarters. With a little remodeling, stately Scarcroft Lodge, a 120-year-old mansion overlooking 160 acres of rolling farmland, would be absolutely top-hole. It was situated well beyond the industrial smog of ugly, workaday Leeds (pop. 510,000). There was a little matter of building permits before Scarcroft could be remodeled, but the colonel soon fixed that. He had a word with the Ministry of Fuel and Power, got permission to spend $112,000 on scarce building materials...