Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restless little redhead of 22 when she came home from a costly education and a trip abroad. At San Antonio she found the Daughters of the Republic of Texas floundering in a $75,000 campaign to save the Alamo. (Its courtyard was up for sale as a hotel site.) Clara Driscoll appeared before the startled legislature at Austin, vainly heckled its members, finally rescued Texas' shrine with her own $65,000 check...
Hingham was born late, when other New England yards had drained off all the skilled labor in sight. On February 19, 1942, its ground-breaking day, the 140-acre site contained an archery course, a bumpy little airport. The rambling grey buildings of the new yard were still going up when the first LCI keel was laid...
...site, already bought and paid for, is Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue, hard by the conventional Metropolitan Museum. The Guggenheim collection has been housed for six years in a temporary, rented building...
...Lobengula, Kruger, Rhodes-these three men are still Africa. A few miles from the site of the palace which was Lobengula's only monument stands one of the many statues of Rhodes, staring toward the north ("My hinterland," he called it). Kruger's frock-coated figure stands in dry, hot Pretoria: at his wife's request, the sculptor has left his top hat hollow, so that it will collect rain for the birds...
...quiet dignity of an office oppo site London's House of Lords, one of the last remaining governments in exile pre pared to return to the jungle. It consisted of the ailing, inactive White Raja of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, the young Raja Muda, and members of the Provisional Government, who eagerly followed the progress of the hard-hitting Australian liberation troops on Borneo {see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...