Word: siting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...test shafts to determine the nature of the soil have been sunk on the Oxford Street property which has been designated as a projected site for the new chemistry laboratory. The first shaft was driven to a depth of 23 feet and for two-thirds of the distance, a stratum of heavy gravel was encountered, admirably suited for a foundation. During the last seven feet, water was struck in a layer of very fine sand and a pump was necessary to keep the shaft...
...site of the laboratory is now being cleared of several old buildings. The property is about a 100 feet from the New Lecture Hall...
Grateful, President Masaryk feted Mrs. Wilson at Prague last week. With him she discussed at length the recent League Assembly at Geneva which she had just attended (TIME, Sept. 20). Together they visited Wilson Park, in Prague, that Mrs. Wilson might choose the site on which Praguers will soon erect a Wilson Monument...
...Medina up the Red Sea coast. There, Jews were noxious, Arabs uneasy. After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira. No harm ensuing, he followed later in holy triumph on his long-lived she-camel, Al-Kaswa, whom he permitted to choose the site of his new abode, a good browsing spot on the Medina town green. Up went the mosque on that spot. Bilal, a blackamoor, was first muezzin. Medina prayed seven times daily and reported for church on Fridays...
Buildings for which drives now exist, but for which funds are not up to their goal, are the War Memorial Church, which is to occupy the site of the present Appleton Chapel, and the improvements that are to take place, when money is available in the Law School buildings...