Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amazon sea apparently extended from eastern Brazil to islands on the present site of the Andes. It was not a tropical sea, but temperate, since the animals that lived in it are characteristic of cool water. It must have extended without a break right past the equator and into the region of the present Mississippi Valley. In those .days the same shellfish lived in Peru and in Oklahoma...
...both the College and the Commonwealth found themselves in straitened financial circumstances, no attempt was made to build a new edifice on the site until the General Court authorized a state-wide lottery in 1794 to raise money for the building. Started in 1804, the new Stoughton Hall was completed a year later, and officially named in 1806. It watched the years flow by gracefully, housing Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, until the night of December 15, 1870, when its prim, Puritan peace was disturbed by the explosion of a bomb under the floor of Room...
...compliance with a state-wide order, all wooded areas have been closed to the public. This will rule out any hunting expeditions or picnics and has already caused cancellations of geology field trips. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, said last night that proposed excursions to the Pine Hills site in Medford will be resumed as soon as the threat of forest fires has been eliminated...
...usual red-painted steel beams are not being used in the Library, Phillips said, because the columns will be encased in cement. From the new yantage point, near the site of the old Dudley gate, the amateur supervisors will be able to watch the 30-ton crane hoisting the beams into position...
Originally scheduled for the less-spacious Sanders Theater, the forum has been moved to the outdoor site to make room for an estimated 7500 persons. Although 3000 tickets have been received to date, the AVC expects the sale next week to double this total at least...