Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong. For example, only recently two brash gunmen halted and robbed a freshman. To the Radcliffe girl the Common is a short-cut between the Square and the regions beyond, but at night she wants little part of the vast expanses of darkness between the twinkle of a few overhead lights. They only other route is the Avenue--the long...
...when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted . . . They are proud, sensitive and haughty to the point of boorishness with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and Naval gunfire backing them...
...Johannes Van Delft, master of the tiny (265 tons) Dutch coaster Combinatie, as he put out of Tangier Harbor into the Strait of Gibraltar, bound for Malta, one day last month, laden with $100,000 worth of U.S. cigarettes. It was the 20th century; the sky was blue overhead; ten kegs of good Holland beer were stowed below, to complement the vessel's small water supply, and the captain's own son, Cornelius, was in charge of her ancient but serviceable diesel engine. "We're going to have a fine trip," shouted Captain Van Delft down...
...Dark. As the days went by, the prisoners, crammed in the filth and darkness of the fetid cabin, tried to make out what was going on overhead. One day they heard another boat come alongside. Several days later, they heard the anchor dropping. Later the ship got under way again. Still later, the Combinatie stopped again and another boat came alongside. On the twelfth day, the engines started again but there was no sound of scurry on the deck. Captain Van Delft shouted. There was no answer. He shouted again; no answer. At last, the prisoners were able...
Begun late in August, the bridge will provide an overhead passageway between Pierce Hall and Cruft Laboratory. The bridge is intended to house the Department of Applied Sciences under one roof...