Word: sites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Mr. Lewis standing close by, Mr. Roosevelt said he had come to inspect, in the interests of national defense, the site for a bridge which Morgantown has long desired. He also said it was an appropriate time to "do a good turn" for some of the Capital's good neighbors, and such a bridge would "open up" their section of the country. Then he added: "This bridge is one of the things that has got to be done as fast as we can possibly do it." Result: Morgantowners beamed on Candidate Lewis...
...Yaddo is a 500-acre estate with pine groves, vast lawns, artificial lakes with ducks, famous rose gardens, white marble fountains. The name Yaddo was a baby pronunciation given by the Trask children (all four of whom died in childhood) to The Shadows, a famous inn formerly on the site of the Trask estate, where the Trasks had spent their summers. It was one of the dozen places where Poe was supposed to have written The Raven, and Katrina Trask said it inspired her own poetry. At the centre of the estate is a three-story Gothic mansion, whose vast...
Replacing the old Hemenway gymnasium, razed in February to make room for the construction of the Littauer Center, a new Hemenway gymnasium has been built, located on Massachusetts Avenue, scarcely a stone's throw from its former site...
Prominently located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Kirkland Street on the site of the old Hemenway Gymnasium, this impressive structure of Georgian design will house the Graduate School of Public Administration, located in Hunt Hall. The exterior of this edifice, composed of 200,000 cubic feet of Chelmsford granite backed up by 300,000 bricks, has already been constructed...
Suspicion of Cuban reserves dates back to an 1880 incident involving an unfortunate Chinese. Digging a water well in Motembo for his master, he presumably stopped for a smoke, at any rate was blown to bits. Promptly forming a company, his master drilled three 900-foot holes on the site, brought in Cuba's first gushers, each producing distillate. Geologists thought this shallow production came from a deeper and much larger reservoir, but drilling equipment was inadequate and nothing further was done about...