Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everything is changing. Cambridge even Cambridge hits up the stride. A triumphal arch for the site of the Washington Eim? An hotel to replace Beck Hall? A silver-screen emporium for the Square? The razing of the Rotunda...
Among the monthly periodicals, over 300 Cosmopolitans are sold of each is site. The Red Book's sales figures hovers near the 225 mark. But the humor magazines are close contestants in the race for first place. Life enjoys tremendous vogue; Vanity Fair is nearly as sought after; and Judge and even the English Punch beat the Century in a popularity race...
...Pueblo or rather pre-Pueblo, village. Governor Scrugham of that state, interested in archaeology, came across several historical references to a buried city. He organized an expedition under the scientific direction of Mr. M. R. Harrington of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (Manhattan). Last fall, the site of the buried city was found. Excavations undertaken by Mr. Harrington and Dr. Kidder of the Smithsonian Institution, and financed by the Heye Foundation, have indicated that it is a record of the oldest civilization in this country...
...days of staid Beck Hall are nearly over, and with their passing comes the possibility that upon the excellent site may be erected a moving picture theatre. Such a project the University authorities would doubtless resent, but their opinion when substantiated by nothing stronger than impotent feeling, has often been completely disregarded by aggressive investors...
...site in the University is more fortunately situated for this purpose than the Beck Hall plot. It is virtually on the Square and immediate to the Yard. So far as the new owner can determine, the zoning laws permit the erection of a theatre on his property...