Word: pisa
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...Tower of Pisa...
...compressed becomes soft mud because clay is made up of minute mineral particles and voids filled with water. Compression gradually forces the water out, the rate of consolidation depending on the depth of the strata and the weight supported. A classic example of the subsidence is the Tower of Pisa, which furnishes fairly accurate data on the factors of weight and shape. Mistakes in foundation engineering are responsible for more damage and loss of life than all other causes combined...
...three long centuries ago, in the year 1590, there gathered in a little cathedral town, overlooking the rippling blue expanse that is the Mediterranean, a little group of most learned men. From France and Germany, and from Rome and Mycenae they had come to this, the little seaport of Pisa...
...which formed its University. Beyond, and nearer the sea, lay a brown-stone edifice handsome in its simplicity, dedicated to the Christian Church. Beside this building a most peculiar structure leaned. Round in shape, and encircled with columns, it was the leaning belfry that had brought more fame to Pisa than its prowess as a seaport or the renown of its University. About the base of this leaning tower a gathering of men had formed, who, straining their eyes, were gazing toward the topmost row of columns. Silence fell upon the waiting circle. Far above a bearded man in flowing...
Group Bologna, Italia, Turino, 52 men, Lowell House; Group Roma, Padova, 43 men, Dunster; Group Napoli, Perugia, 41 men, Adams House; Group Firenze, Pavia, 41 men, Leverett House; Group Pisa, Catania, 40 men, Kirkland Houses; Group Siena, Cagliari, 38 men, John Winthrop House; and Group Barl, Milano, 41 men, Eliot House...