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Word: site (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorable site, just north of the Harvard Bridge, on the Cambridge side of the Charles, has been chosen, but the property has not yet been leased from the Metropolitan District Commission. Club officials have approached Charles W. Greenough, head of the commission, but as yet he has granted no official permission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Will Hold Drive to Finance Boathouse Plans | 3/10/1956 | See Source »

...Leeward and Windward Islands, with a population of 3,000,000 spread over 1,000 miles of water, clearly called for some compromise of Manley's demands. So strong was the compromise movement that the delegates even agreed to let a committee of outsiders help choose a capital site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: Birth of a Nation | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...businessman looking for a new plant site cannot deduct travel expenses from taxable income; such travel is a capital expenditure. But a businessman who travels on U.S. Government work can deduct the entire cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Advice from Experts | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

What Macdonald proposes is that the government feed and house the Olympians and pay their transportation bills to Australia. "I am not proposing that we give these athletes salaries," he said, "rather I feel that we should get them together in some training site with weather similar to Australia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Macdonald Asks Olympic Aid | 2/16/1956 | See Source »

...front yard behind a brace of phantom horses. Also in the ghostly cast: a wistfully mourning lady variously identified as 1) Arabella Waldegrave, daughter of a 17th century local lord, 2) an English nun whose weakness for a monk in a monastery, said to have occupied the rectory site, had led to her being sealed up alive in a wall, and 3) a French nun, Marie Lairre, who had renounced her vows to become the bride of a Waldegrave only to be strangled and buried in a cellar for her devotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Ghosts of Borley | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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