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...compromise between the city and the MBTA also quelled rumors that Harvard might raze an apartment building near the train yard and donate the land to the Kennedy Foundation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Library Hurdle Falls | 1/7/1970 | See Source »

...squadron of police, paddywagons, and moving vans evicted four families from their homes near the Harvard Business School. These four are the last of a group of eighty-five families who have been fighting for the past nine years against the plans of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to raze this low-income neighborhood and build a moderate income housing project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRA Evicts Four Families At Proposed Building Site | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

...Russia by reviewing his triumphant soldiers from a stand in Leningrad's Palace Square. But three months after the invasion of Russia began and the prospects of quickly subduing Leningrad began to fade, he grew angry. The German high command declared: "The Führer has decided to raze the city of Petersburg from the face of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Past Too Terrible To Be Buried | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...February, a similarly unattended fire swept through Harvard's Dane Hall, destroying ROTC exams and valuable student records. By March, the University decided to raze what remained of the structure and plant the plot with grass...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Many Problems Confronted The Class of '18 | 6/11/1968 | See Source »

...many so-called "evil" doings of the Viet Cong. Let us examine in turn some of the "good" doing of the American side. Let us suppose that in military operations such as Cedar Falls, the "allied forces" take every civilian out of his or her village safely, raze the village down as they did since it may be Viet Cong headquarter, then provide a nice modern house for each inhabitant along with all sorts of American "goodies" after the operation. Let us assume that if all this were true then what will the Vietnamese think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergrad from Vietnam Spots Traditions in War | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

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