Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exactly scaled to one-ninth the size of an Essex-class carrier, she was prefabricated at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, trucked to the site in sections. Total cost: $35,000. Topside, she bristles with 20-and 40-mm. and five-inch guns, all exactly scaled. Parked on her flight deck are faithfully scaled models of Helldivers, Hellcats, Avengers and Corsairs (donated by the manufacturers). Her innards-which visitors may see if they buy a war bond-contain a model of a carrier's boiler room, a section of enlisted men's quarters complete with pin-up girls...
There was a certain vagueness in Promoter Viau's story. Blueprints? It would not be correct, he said, to make them public before the officials saw them. The site? Ah, to name it would start a frightful land boom. But the fact remained that he had got Quebec City off the mark first in the race for the New Geneva...
...part of a soldier's skull, including a completely new eye-socket and cheekbone." The material which Colonel Gordon uses, called cancellous bone, is the spongy substance found between hard bone and marrow. The body's biggest storehouse of it is the hip bone. In its new site, cancellous bone becomes hard and fixed within a month...
...site for the proposed new medical center, Dr. Bock has selected the plot of ground, now vacant, between Dunster and Holyoke Streets, bordering on Mt. Auburn Street. Here Dr. Bock would erect an eight or nine story building that would have, in addition to a 100 bed infirmary capacity, a large staff competent to "combine care of illness with study of its prevention, and carry on studies of the stuff of which man is made...
Archeologists have long supposed that the site lay somewhere near the modern town of Heliopolis, a Cairo suburb. But Professor Herman Junker, in a recent Berlin lecture, advanced a new theory: he had found an old tomb inscription placing Heliopolis near Helwan, an ancient town on the Nile south of Cairo. He advised Egyptologists to dig in a large necropolis (cemetery), well-known to archeologists, near Helwan...