Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with her hair combed, and a smartly tailored suit, she is très chic. She is doggedly serious about learning English. She takes a lesson a day; instead of table hopping between her two shows at the Versailles, she studies her grammar book in her dressing room. The main reason: after her third visit to the U.S., she has decided "six months Paris, six months New York, I like. You understand...
...level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over the East River. Carrying one-way traffic on each, the two decks are 36 feet wide all the way except through the toll plaza near the middle of the bridge. The actual length of the main span over the Mystic River is 800 feet...
Naturally, a structure of such proportions was a spectacular job of engineering. Fifty thousand tons of steel rest on 50,000 cubic yards of concrete. The mammoth concrete piers on which the main truss rests go down some 83 feet below the water line--making these huge abutments the largest of their kind in the country. Dozens of homes were transported intact away from the 60 foot strip that the bridge's approaches carve through Chelsea and Charlestown. In many respects the engineering was equally as remarkable as in the construction of the John Hancock building...
Under the proposed plan, commuters, by paying one half of the regular dormitory dues, may spend the night in the derms and may attend meals and informal dances. Main objective of the plan is to provide affiliation with dormitories for all senior and freshman commuters. Commuting freshmen indicated dorm preference at the time of registration...
Third on the PBH committee list are the Speakers and Entertainers, who speak and entertain regularly at the settlement houses. Hollowe'en party production is this committee's main fall concern...