Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administrative official said, however, that while this site is always a possibility, it was not under immediate consideration by the University. "We could clear this space if we had to," he added, "but naturally we would prefer a closer location...
...have spoken with many city officials who all agree that the area must be one of the first to be rebuilt," he stated. "Since urban renewal entails reconstruction of vast areas, no conceivable plan for Cambridge could not include this decaying site," the businessman added...
...back a hospital, adding carefully that it was "to be called the Michael Reese Hospital for all time to come." Also they ruled "that the hospital be nonsectarian, that the sufferers, no matter of what religion or nationality, if found worthy and there be room, be admitted." The site, 29 blocks south of the Loop, was then on the lake shore and in the city's most fashionable residential area. But the district hit the skids, and wealthy residents moved to the near North Side. In the 1920s, mansions were cut up into tenements, populated mostly by poverty-stricken...
...Million Gamble. On their island in the Seine (the He de la Cité), Paris Christians first carried stones to the site of Notre-Dame about the 6th century. The church they built was razed by the Normans in the middle of the gth century. A new basilica of Notre-Dame lasted the better part of another three centuries, but by 1140 it was too small, and worshipers fainted away in the crush. A year or so before, a bold, bright farm boy from the provinces was drawn to the intellectual beehive of the schools of Paris...