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Word: sites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University-favored site for a Cambridge-Harvard parking facility was probably obviated yesterday, when it was stated that John Briston Sullivan, builder and realtor, will definitely take up his option to build a motel on the Brattle Square parking lot, adjacent to the MTA car yards...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Motel Presents Threat To City-Harvard Garage | 11/25/1958 | See Source »

Last month, in a letter to City Manager John J. Curry '19, President Pusey had offered to help provide public parking facilities in the Harvard Square area, and suggested that costs be split 50-50 with Cambridge. It is known that the site which is to be used for the motel was one of those favored by the University for the contemplated parking area...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Motel Presents Threat To City-Harvard Garage | 11/25/1958 | See Source »

...motel would add 55 new housing units and about 25 parking units to the area, bringing more buyers to the Square. Storer expressed approval of the motel, on the condition that "Sullivan can provide parking," and added that the University should be able to find another, more favorable, site for a parking facility...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Motel Presents Threat To City-Harvard Garage | 11/25/1958 | See Source »

...atomic engine energized by the molecular disintegration of whatever element it traverses") and its molizing system (a special reverse cone which pulls the dirt in after the missile so that its path cannot be tracked from the air). On Aug. 4, the MOLE was successfully fired from its sinking site in Death Valley. It went into orbit at "depths variously reported as from a few inches to 60,000 ft." Two weeks later a senatorial committee clamped on the MOLE the megasecret classification of DBR (Destroy Before Reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Megasecret MOLE | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...called by phone. "They wouldn't let us explain what was going on," says Monahan helplessly. "They'd make sure they'd got the right company, -and then go into their sales pitch." One company insisted on being hired to build the launching pad (or sinking site). "One thing it proves," says Monahan, "is that engineers can be awfully gullible. One reason we did this was to lampoon the engineers. I don't think anybody can be more pompous than the engineers who are saving mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Megasecret MOLE | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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