Word: sites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hind, entered Magellan Strait, went plundering up the west coast of the New World. Laden with Spanish treasure, he pushed north in search of an Arctic passage back to England. One day in the spring of 1579, he sailed into a "convenient and fit harborough" somewhere near the future site of San Francisco. There he received the homage of native Indians and, according to his chaplain's account, nailed to a "faire great poste"a brass plaque claiming "Nova Albion"in the name of Her Majesty. Then Francis Drake sailed on west round the world, and his plaque vanished...
...Site chosen for this edifice is the edge of the cherry-rimmed Tidal Basin, directly on the North-South axis from the White House through the Washington Monument. The building will serve no purpose other than to house a monumental statue of Thomas Jefferson similar to the one now in the Capitol. To give the building due impressiveness, the irregular Tidal Basin will be drained, its cherry trees uprooted and transplanted. Three formal reflecting pools will be constructed to take the Basin's place, new streets will have to be built and paved, new traffic arteries allocated. Washington engineers...
...agreement to evacuate the Chrysler plants, to accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
...shores of St. Regis Lake if practicable . . . for the higher education of boys and girls." To keep out undesirable neighbors, Phelps Smith also provided for the formation of a "Paul Smith's Country Club," whose members should have sufficient "character, wealth, and breeding" to buy the old hotel site from the estate within ten years...
...when first employed they penetrated masks, made it intolerable for soldiers to keep their masks on and thus exposed them to lethal gases like phosgene which were fired in the same bombardment. Favorite irritant of the Germans was diphenylchlorarsine. The Entente developed a similar one called diphenylaminechlorarsine (Adam-site), but never got it into action. These irritants are not stopped by any canister chemicals and an extremely efficient filter, which makes for hard breathing, is necessary...