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Word: maine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hygiene Building--home of the University health and Freshman exercise offices. Indoor Athletic Building--main gymnasium and indoor sport auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Geography Not Difficult | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...enter the building, on the right I should like to point out the Farnsworth Room, which is a room entirely devoted to recreational reading. There is a lady attendant there whose main job it is to make sure that students take no notes on their reading, but rather that they do read to amuse themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Most Imposing Building in Yard | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

Entering the main portion of the Library, the room to the right is known as the Treasure Room, a room open to students and Faculty only. Here Harvard has many of its rare and valuable gifts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Most Imposing Building in Yard | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...going on up the stairs, straight ahead we will take a glimpse into the main reading room, which seats approximately 300 people. In the cases along the wall there are textbooks which are in use in students' courses. The special type of blue light is exceedingly "easy on the eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Most Imposing Building in Yard | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...hour later it was followed by another almost as severe. One resident of nearby Cavite died of heart-failure. Sixty-two were injured, some by falling power lines, some in stampedes out of crowded cinema theatres. When the lights were finally turned on again, the Escolta, Manila's main street, was littered with broken glass, parts of the city were flooded by snapped water mains. The nine-story Great Eastern Hotel-whose terrified guests rushed out of their rooms more or less dressed-had settled four inches. Most of Manila's buildings, designed to withstand quakes, are built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Shock at Manila | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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