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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turned over to the University by an anonymous private donor, the former site of John Harvard's house in Charles town will be made over into a play ground for the city of Boston, it was announced last night...
Listen to William M. Short, president of Seattle's Inglewood Country Club: "We saw it coming months ago. Over in Kirkland (site of the Lake Washington Shipyards, five miles from Inglewood) war workers are sleeping in chicken sheds, in parked cars. We had square yards of space going unused 20 hours...
Stalingrad was no longer a city. It was a place on the Volga, an expanse of rubbled homes and buildings, heaping corpses, tanks. The battle for Stalingrad was no longer a battle for that place alone. The Russians, widening their counter-attacks above and below the site where Stalin's city once stood, now saw the struggle on the Volga "as the center of gravity of the summer campaign." Stalingrad, they said, was no longer a separate segment of the Volga line, but a part of "general combat" from Leningrad to the Caucasus...
Life has never a dull moment for the Marines on Guadalcanal, site of the important Solomons air base that was wrested from the Japanese a month ago. If the enemy is not attacking, the Marines...
...drinking pump in front of Hollis and Stoughton was placed there at the time of the tercentenary, in 1936, on the site of a similar apparatus which used to supply water to the residents of those Halls before "modern" plumbing was installed there...