Word: landed
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Harvard said that it would pay the current fair market value of the land--half a million square feet at about five dollars a foot--plus an additional $1,000,000. This extra sum is "to assist the trustees and the operating management of the system to accomplish the necessary relocation and consolidation of the facilities so as to free land for sale...
...Harvard is able to get rights to the land, it will probably be used for two new residential Houses for undergraduates and probably one or two apartment houses, which would be taxable and thus contribute to strengthening the Cambridge tax base. Along with Quincy House, these two projected Houses would complete the Program for Harvard College project of constructing three new Houses for expansion and reduction of crowding...
...believed that there are several other organizations besides the University which are also interested in buying the land and it is by no means certain that the University will be able to make the purchase. The Trustees of the MTA and other authorities will meet Monday morning, and some decision may be forth-coming at that time...
...first effects of the technologicial age became apparent when scholars learned the machine best wringed out prose composed in the United Kingdom, composed preferably, before the start of the 19th century. Sadly, America was a land of haste and the automatic washer-dryer, and the work of American prosewriters proved too crude, too harsh, for the Eliot machine's sensitivities. No fools, the scholars did not be-tray their beloved machine, and respected its sensitivities; they didn't bother much with trying to process American literature, particularly modern American literature...
Another control problem is how to supply small bursts of power to alter the course of a rocket deep in space, to land it softly on the moon or swing it around Mars. Fuel systems now in use do not operate efficiently at low throttle, and once the fuel is turned off they cannot be re-ignited easily. Last week the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Calif, unveiled a fuel system that could solve this problem. It uses hypergolic fuel, i.e., two fluids that ignite as soon as they come in contact. A feed mechanism (using...