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Mining companies began hollowing out the caverns in the 1940s as they dug for limestone for highway construction. Rather than use the opencut quarry method, which scars the landscape, miners tunneled deep into bluffs along a limestone seam 22½ ft. thick, creating rooms with pillars. In all, 200 million sq. ft. of space has been scooped out over the years, and an additional 6 million sq. ft. is being opened up annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subterropolis | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

Though they come from different ends of America, and hold down different ends of the line, the pair's styles of play mesh seam lessly, much to the dismay of opposing ball carriers and quarterbacks...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Pat Fleming and Joe Margolis | 11/19/1982 | See Source »

...terribly disappointed when the band was not invited to West point but I was insulted when the seem agreed to go without the band, The Harvard Band, the unsung heroes of the University community, has supported the football seam for 63 years, through winning and losing seasons, rains, snow, sub-freezing temperature, and enormous financial burdens, It would have been a well-deserve, gesture had the Atheistic Department refused to send the football team to Army without the band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back the Band | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

...wild combos of silk, cotton and wool. "I found that I could sell the wildest fabrics for men if the style wasn't outrageous," she says. Barnes has a flexible definition of outrageous: in her first collections, she used curved shoulder pads while removing the conventional shoulder seam so that a jacket seemed to melt along the arm. For her line this fall, the intrepid Barnes is featuring overcoats of exotic tweeds. She is also reworking men's and women's jackets with knitted collars of complementary colors but with different, tighter weaves incorporating spandex. If this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Cheers for the Home Team | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Harvard loser of only one of its last eight games, is the hot seam. Boston College (13-s ECAC), which qualified for the playoff's sometime around Christmas, has lost three straight, scoring only four goals...

Author: By Bruce Schoenweld, | Title: Big Night at Bright | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

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