Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building was built on land leased from an estate (the rent: $90,000 a year), on a deal wherein the store would revert to the landowners, upon payment to Hale's of $350,000 when the lease ran out in 1944. Once Hale's almost bought the site for $1,500,000, but stalled for a better bargain. Then someone else snapped up the whole works: San Francisco's famed real-estate operator, Louis R. Lurie...
...Moscow assigned to it the defense of a crucial river crossing in the Ukraine. There, in a village much like the peaceful hamlets of Moravia, the Czechs met 60 German tanks in an angry melee. When the battle ended a day later Svoboda still held the crossing, and the site where the village once stood was littered with the shells of 19 enemy tanks and the corpses of 400 infantrymen...
Stephen D. Becker was chosen chairman for the dance with the other members of the Freshman Committee to assist him. The importance of the weekend will determine whether the dance will be formal or informal and also the price of tickets. The site has not yet been chosen...
...with the shelling and occupation of Rome. Italian troops fought back in the suburbs of the capital. But Nazi jackboots pounded into the eternal city, up to the gates of the Vatican. In Rome, the Germans held the traffic junction between north and south Italy. They had the best site to set up a puppet Fascist government and to promote civil war among Italians. But by putting the Vatican under their "protection"* they had now, more than ever, arrayed against them Catholicism's power...
...long last the elders of Cobh cried that he had gone into thin air entirely. They threatened to withdraw their gift of the monument site. But Jerome Connor came forward again, with one of the most melodious of all his explanations...