Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guests. Suburban Westchester residents had squawked indignantly when the U.S. began looking around the county for permanent quarters. Long Island groups protested, less notably, at the rate at which U.N. employes took over apartments and houses in a housing crisis. This week, after a fortnight's site-hunting jaunt, U.N.'s delegates sat down to select a new home...
Faced with such an embarrassment of hospitality, the delegates could not make up their minds. Dodging a final decision, they recommended to the full 54-nation headquarters site committee a choice of three suitable areas: San Francisco's Presidio, Philadelphia's Belmont-Roxborough site, a tract near White Plains...
...Ridge Observatory, 25 miles North-east of Cambridge in Harvard Township, was established as a more likely site for the systematic photography of the Northern skies. Today, armed with a Schmidt Camera--advantages; better image over larger field, astronomically speaking short (one half hour) exposures, revealing stars down to nineteenth magnitude--the staff at Oak Ridge is aiming at a complete analysis of the Milky...
After dividing the building into two parts, the College movied it bodily from its site on Dunster and South Streets to its present grounds on Boylston and South. There in 1931 the men of Kirkland came in to make academic use of the old building. Today its beer-mugs, low ceilings, and kitchen with a social conscience make it a museum that has come to life...
...Boyden Station in South Africa, corresponding center for southern photography, is at Harvard Kopje in Orange Free State. Its white stucco buildings, located on a high plateau 14 miles from Bloemfontein, contain six telescopes which cover all of the southern sky and 30 degrees of the northern. The site first chosen for the Southern observatory, Arepuipa, Peru, was in operation from 1890 to 1926 at which time the expensive transfer of equipment was made to the new location...