Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, the "Gateway to the West," wanted a gate to mark the spot. The citizens offered $125,000 in prizes for the best ideas. Last week the winning design was announced: a stainless steel, streamlined, 590-ft.-high arch to rise beside the Mississippi on a site which was formerly occupied mostly by old warehouses. The arch, with a "funicular elevator and observation corridor," had first reared in the mind of a talented Michigan architect named Eero Saarinen, who, with his father Eliel, is a frequent winner of architectural competitions. His prize this time: $40,000 and a warm recommendation...
...site of the camp, discovered and donated by the Unitarian Service Committee, is a boarding school. Its cost of summer operation breaks down into such items are $3150 for food, $750 for medical supplies, including vitamin capsules, $500 for equipment, $500 for maintenance, $450 for insurance, and other smaller expenses...
...instructresses for 66 years. From its modest origin in 1881, when Dr. Dudley A. Sargent opened a "Sanatory Gymnasium" on Church Street, Sargent has progressed steadily to a broad and varied curriculum, with a student body of 500. In 1904, the school moved from Church Street to the present site, and slipped under the wing of Boston University in 1929, where it has been ever since...
While Cambridge's luxury remained, her military reputation died a very natural death. One cause of the reputation was the big arsenal that had been established beyond the Common--in fact, somewhere near the site of the Radeliffe dormitories At first the Arsenal was taken very seriously, but when it became evident that the British weren't coming back to Greater Boston, the undergraduates discovered that the old cannonballs might come in useful. They rolled them to their rooms in Stoughton and Hollis, heated them in the fire, and then put them to heat the next room, where there...
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