Word: site
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months thereafter, Roosevelt and Churchill tried to wriggle out of the Black Sea site...
Garishly colored taxis now park in Harvard Square where horses and chaises once waited for the end of Sunday meeting. Established in 1632 on the site now occupied by Lehman Hall, the first Puritan meeting house was little more than a log cabin. Cambridge itself had been settled only two years before as a "fortified place." Since the meeting house had no bell, the congregation gathered to the roll of a drum. The sober Elders later were able to buy a bell, but their jubilation was short-lived. For Thomas Hooker, their pastor, migrated to Connecticut, leaving only eleven families...
...meeting house was razed and Dane Law College, the first Harvard Law School, appeared on its foundations. The law era lasted some sixty years, but as the University grew in wealth, the bursars office inevitably took precedence. Lehman Hall now almost obscures a small, grey tombstone, marking the site of the old meeting house, and the rattle of the subway drowns any echo of the days when Puritan preachers poured out fire and brimstone in the Square...
...remarkable thing about these neolithic people is that they lived in a walled town at a time-more than 7,000 years ago-when man was only just beginning to build any kind of settlement. The reason for the wall is probably the character of Jericho's site. A copious spring of fresh water (Elisha's fountain in the Bible) gushes out of the hillside and makes possible the irrigation of a fertile, subtropical plain beside the Dead Sea. The people of the first Jericho must have developed irrigation and built their prosperity upon it. This settlement...
...Penrose is also the reason the national championship tourney has never left its original site, despite occasional bids each year. Regardless of the Tourney's outcome, every player in the four games is guaranteed a royal victor's treatment--and it's all compliments of the Broadmoor Hotel...