Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest change for Chestertown came in 1941, when Ford Dealer Philip G. Wilmer started the Kent Manufacturing Co., to make the gadgetry of war-flares, fuses for detonators and military fireworks. "The Defense Plant," as folks called it, brought the town prosperity, but they worried a little about its site, three blocks from the campus, four from the business district. Already there had been two or three small explosions that did not hurt anyone...
Last week, an hour's drive from the site of the massacre of '62, homesteaders of 1954 crowded into Rupert. Idaho, for a land drawing. At stake: 100-acre homesteads in the valley of the Snake, worth upwards of $10,000 each-when soaked with irrigation water and sweat...
...peculiar track was made by enormously powerful gamma rays that created electron-positron pairs as they streaked away from the site of the collision...
...ancient Athens was the nearest thing to the birthplace of Western civilization. Primarily a market place, it served as university, town meeting, news and gossip center, gathering place for poets, artists and philosophers. For years archaeologists of the American School of Classical Studies have been excavating at the site of the agora, removing some ten feet of dirt. Last week they were busy restoring the Stoa of Attalus, one of the agora's main buildings...
...Wiesner, director of the electronics laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who had helped pick the site, then Cohn told the committee that the scientist was now opposed to the Seattle location. Wiesner later told Woltman that Cohn had "misrepresented" his position, that he had never changed his mind about the Seattle site, and that "the sabotage charge was completely unfounded and ridiculous." Said Woltman: "By failing to present [this] vital testimony, Senator McCarthy could report mismanagement approaching sabotage . . . And the world's two largest transmitters now lie useless in Government warehouses." Swallows Come Home. Was there ever...