Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado River in Boulder Canyon. In 1930, when construction started, Interior Secretary Wilbur named it Hoover after his boss. When the Democrats moved in, Secretary Harold Ickes decided that Wilbur had had no right to rename the dam, changed it back to Boulder-despite the fact that the site had been shifted 20 miles southward to Black Canyon...
Hackett, who knows that "a good school is a band of devoted, capable teachers," is offering prospective teachers a bonus: homes for their families in a new faculty apartment house on the school site. Architects' plans call for an ultramodern, glass-&-concrete schoolhouse, gym, auditorium and chapel. Right now the World School consists of one flagpole...
...last-minute change in the meeting's site, made to accommodate the overflow crowd, resulted in a mad hegira to New Lecture Hall that caused British poet Auden to murmur, "It was rather frightening...
H.A.A. construction plans call for nine new clay courts just west of the Dillon Field House and two large batteries on the farther side of Soldiers Field. The former will occupy the site of the old Military Science stables, and the latter, constructed of a quick-drying asphalt mixture, will be on the site of the prewar grouping...
...last February the Council committee on the Salzburg enterprse had already secured the 30-room Cumberland castle, 40 miles from the city, as the site of the seminar. But through the continued efforts of the International Student service at Geneva, the more modern facilities of theatrical producer Mex Reinhardt's old home of Leopoldskron are now available...