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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gilberts. The German Navy dreamed of basing a fleet on Majuro atoll (north of Mili), and in World War I Admiral Graf von Spee stopped there on his way to the Falklands. Then in 1914 the Japs seized the Marshalls, along with the neighboring Marianas and Carolines, now site of the Truk powerhouse; they remained in possession with League blessing. From then on the Japs knew what to do. The U.S. would have to spend many a man now to undo his works...
...usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared in a Geography 1 midyear exam question--the correct answer being to note the theatre's ideal location midway between Harvard Square and Charlestown Navy Yard. But that strategic site has not always been the convening place of sailors on leave and students on sprees...
...factory's pride is a huge 500-ton hydraulic press, bought in the U.S. before the war, removed from its first site and reassembled in midwinter in a roofless, windowless shed...
President Vargas knows the joke and chuckles over it. Last week, on the sixth anniversary of his "New State," he chuckled again. São Pedro Church will be moved, stone by stone, to be rebuilt on a new site. President Vargas' regime is also moving-toward a postwar new deal...
...present building, replacing the old quarters at 8 Holyoke Street, was the result of a highly successful decade (their only one) following the turn of the century. E. M. Wheewright '76, one of the founders, was selected as architect, and the convenient site half-way between the Hygiene Building and the Psychological Clinic was chosen...