Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several groups of students expressed their relief upon hearing of the new site. Students in Stoughton Hall, adjacent to the present playground, said that they had high hopes of passing at least two of their courses next term...
Perhaps the world's most spectacularly homeless group of able young men is General Wladyslaw Anders' 160,000-strong II Polish Corps. They were looking to the New World. Argentina would take 20,000 as farmers and technicians. Site of the proposed settlement: the semi-arid plateaus of Patagonia with their thousands of acres of good sheep land...
Pestalozzi Village is the dream of Walter Robert Cord, 36, an ailing, angular Swiss editor, who has already raised a million Swiss francs ($234,000) or about a fourth of what he needs for the project. Trogen's town meeting voted him the eleven-acre site, overlooking Lake Constance. Swiss students volunteered their labor...
...July 22, 1796, Moses Cleaveland and his band of a dozen nosed their little craft into a winding stream and decided that there, where a river met the lake, would be a good place for another town site. The Yankees built a couple of log cabins and left one family-Job Stiles and his wife-to hold the franchise...
Modern Clevelanders who grumble at their smoky, sprawling city's hot and humid summers, and its wet and windy winters, agree that Moses was smart; he returned to Connecticut and never came back to the town site named...