Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the government. Realizing the drop-in-bucket inadequacy of this effort, an administrative committee is quietly searching out the alumni and local realtors for vacant apartment buildings and hotels and is further conducting negotiations with the Cambridge City Council for erection of a small-scale project on the site of the Botanical Gardens. But while the talk and search for a needle in the haystack goes on, the University's hesitancy to assume positive responsibility becomes apparent...
...Thompson's Spa, Inc. (established 1882) in Boston, things seldom change. The original Washington Street restaurant has never moved from its site in a dingy brick building opposite the equally venerable Boston Globe. Many a staid Bostonian (like onetime customer Calvin Coolidge) has eaten his fish chowder and apple pie a»; che same counter for 30 years, served every day by the same waitress...
Mather Hall Site Rejected...
After consideration of this factor, the only local site which remained a possibility was the plot behind Mather Hall. Since new construction is planned for this land, both the Student Council and the business office did not consider the expense of renovation worthwhile; for construction would result in total loss of the proposed parking lost outlay...
...fabulous reputation was crisscrossed with contradictions. Though he shunned public entertainment, he liked to give lavish drinking parties. In Happy Valley, near Chungking, site of his secret headquarters, he toasted visitors with innumerable kam pels. He could down 18 Chinese wine cups filled with brandy in an evening's bout. He was hard and he was tender. He personally succored victims of Jap atrocities, established orphanages for Chinese waifs. For Communists and fellow travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited...