Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real estate developer's plan to put seven or eight apartment houses and a civic-center-auditorium on a platform above the Charles River Basin met objection yesterday as a "grandiose scheme" to create a value for essentially worthless land...
When Thompson and his opponent, Paul F. Mackesey, athletic director, were ushered to the platform amid booing, hissing, cheering undergraduates, the instructor appeared to be outnumbered by the athletic faction of the campus. But he appealed to the crowd to join "the dialogue," and proceeded in Socratic tones...
...controversial proposal to put a 40-acre real estate development on a platform over the Charles River Basin will be discussed at a hearing in the Gardner Auditorium of the State House this morning...
...performance is even palely entertaining, and it is, homage should be directed to the feet of Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, who wrote the thing in the first place, using a conventional mistaken-identity farce as a platform from which to mount a deadpan, deadly, beautifully epigrammatic attack on the hypocrisy of a society which was soon, hypocritically, to cast...
Last Sunday evening the two young ladies of 47 Mt. Auburn St. removed the tables and hid the cups to make rooms for some 150 chairs and a platform for folksingers Bill Wood and Joan Baez. From the management's point of view, the evening was a success--standing room only and only one visit from Cambridge's Finest. And from the audience's somewhat partisan point of view the evening was great...