Word: severance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was some smoke, but there wasn't much fire yesterday morning when the whole of the Cambridge fire department showed up in front of Sever Hall...
Vital necessities, such as water, pumps, sever pumps, five alarms, radio facilities, hospital services, etc., are not to be disturbed...
Voting tables will be set up in all the House dining halls, Widener, Harvard Hall, Sever Hall, Emerson Hall, Dudley and all the final and waiting clubs...
...perhaps another, the Deutschland), the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, four heavy and perhaps eight light cruisers, about 25 destroyers. This was probably more than the British could quickly assemble at any one pressure point. Such a striking force could be used with overwhelming effect against convoys. It could sever British lines to Archangel and the Mediterranean. It might raid Iceland, as the U.S. Fleet had raided the Marshall Islands with devastating effect. It could, as it did last week, draw off most of Britain's effective naval and air strength in one direction-the perfect precondition for invasion...
...Most of these men . . . have been getting salaries much higher than those which can be paid Government employes. ... If we did not have any provision for $1-a-year men, we should be forced to ask these men to sever their old connections entirely to take temporary jobs at salaries which might not enable them to meet their fixed obligations. . . . We would usually get ... older men who were independently wealthy ... or those who have already retired...