Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...site, called the College Grant, was given to Dartmouth by the State Legislature in 1807 to "assist the education of youth who shall be indigent...
...That Vanished. It was not to fortify any U.S. territorial claims that the icebreaker Atka steamed into antarctic waters early last January, but to collect scientific data and scout out a site for a large-scale U.S. geophysical expedition in 1957-58. Off Little America, the Atka made an unwelcome discovery: the Bay of Whales, which had served as a harbor for Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expeditions in 1928, 1933, 1939 and 1946, had disappeared. An enormous chunk of shelf ice on which Byrd and Co. set up camp had broken off and drifted away...
...Washinton's troops occupied the College buildings, one professor packed up the Harvard library in two days and trundled it off to Andover for safe-keeping. Gradually the library began to bulge with valuable books, and it moved from Harvard Hall to Gore Hall, located on Widener's current site, and then to the "Treasure Room" of Widener...
...this in an envelope...and see that it gets to J. B. Duke." When he recovered, he kept on with his plan, and soon J. B. found himself doing just as Few had hoped. Cigar in mouth and cane in hand, J. B. picked out an 8,000-acre site next to Trinity, chose his type of architecture ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me."), ordered a chapel with 77 stained-glass windows and "the best medical center, by golly, between Baltimore and New Orleans." In December 1924, a year before J. B. Duke died...
When the bombs begin popping, Graves promised. AEC representatives will be in radio contact with the Nevada test site and will tell the public when each bomb is scheduled. If a harmless sound wave hits the region, Graves hopes that panic will not sweep the gulches again...