Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plato started it all, according to De Camp, by describing in his Dialogues a marvelous country beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar and Ceuta). Life was beautiful in Atlantis, said Plato, but an earthquake had foundered the continent, leaving only shoals to mark its site...
Runaway Allegory. Wherever he got his idea, Plato did not expect Atlantis to be taken literally. He meant it as an imaginary site for an ideal city, as described in his Republic. Men who came after began to accept Atlantis as fact. For 2,000 years the legend grew. Cultists built on it, explorers searched...
...site finally selected will provide accommodation for 300-500 graduate students, the Provost said...
...that the building would serve graduate students as well as undergraduates; the Law School Forum and many organizations such as the Philosophy Club, Economics Club, and English Club which are largely made up of graduate students, could have space and equipment assigned to them in the Center. While the site of the proposed Memorial has not been chosen, it is assumed that it would be convenient to the majority of students...
...Center would crowd the coyotes out of a 100-square-mile patch of desert, probably somewhere near Boulder Dam or Grand Coulee. Site specifications called for level country surrounded by hilly terrain for "shielding hazardous developments," one million horsepower of cheap electric power, a steady flow of cold water at a rate of 250,000 gallons a minute. By 1955, said the Army, some 4,000 men would be working at the Center...