Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam Poe knocked on every door in Delaware, Ohio, until he had begged enough money to buy the town's unprofitable stagecoach inn. To the Methodist minister, little Delaware, 20 miles north of Columbus, seemed like the perfect site for a Methodist college...
...first such project by the Department of Architecture to earn recognition by the University administration includes dormitory accommodations for approximately 500 Law and Arts and Sciences students on the Jarvis Court site as well as a central dining hall and lounge building for all graduate students...
Sacha's chauffeur was told to drive back to town. At the Place Bellecour, on the site of a monument to the Resistance, he was made to get out of the car. Said a patriot: "On this spot six of our men were odiously assassinated by the Nazis. If you did not know it, now you do. Take off your hat and observe one minute of silence." Clenching his teeth, Sacha complied. Notoriously fond of talking, he was silent for an entire minute. His captors took flashbulb pictures which turned up in the Lyon newspaper Le Progres. Humiliated...
...Rome had a subway tunnel that stretched, Romans said, "from nowhere to nowhere." It began under the Colosseum and meandered five miles southwest to the site of a projected Fascist fairground outside the city. Last year the city fathers decided to complete the project by extending it 1¼ miles, from the Colosseum to the central railway station...
...site of the house where William Henry Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, was stabbed the same night Lincoln was shot...