Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divinity Hall, originally built by Unitarians, had been the site suggested in the 1947 O'Brian report for the Unitarian center. The Committee's recommendations were first made public last month...
Coach Corey Wynn's freshman tennis team will open its season against Exeter on the prep school's courts this afternoon. The Yardling B team, which easily beat Middlesex in its only start, will probably play Exeter's junior varsity at the same site today...
...falling through the moon's gravitational field. As it nears the surface, it will extend three spring-cushioned legs on which (if all goes well) it will come to rest in a vertical position, undamaged and ready for the earthbound blastoff. This delicate maneuver requires a level landing site; if the spaceship were to hit the lunar equivalent of the Grand Canyon, it would have small chance of seeing the earth again...
...methods he learned as a wartime cryptographer, Ventris began his work in earnest after the publication in 1951 of a book concerning another great discovery. The book was about the work of Professor Carl Blegen of the University of Cincinnati, who had come across 600 tablets while excavating the site of what is believed to have been the palace of King Nestor of Pylos, one of the great, Greek-speaking Achaean heroes of the Iliad. Since the Evans and Blegen tablets were in the same Linear B script, it was obvious that Knossos on the island of Crete and Pylos...
...known as the site of the post-war international financial conference, Dumbarton Oaks, near Washington, D. C., is the home of the University's Byzantine research...