Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasion was the annual wintersports meet at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, site of the 1936 winter Olympics. No records were made by the skaters in the Olympic Stadium, none by the skiers on the glittering slopes of the Eckenberg. The big show was the crowd itself, which came in well-heeled thousands, filled the villages' hotels, overflowed the sleeping cars parked on sidings, backed up all the way to Munich, two hours away by train. Some skied and skated, more took chocolate on the sunny terraces, all drank and danced until after dawn in bars and casinos and behind the shuttered...
...their plant on paper. Kaiser shuttled back and forth between the office and Washington, always a half-hour late for appointments that extended all the way around the clock. When the loan was finally approved by Jesse Jones last week, the plans were ready. Three days later the plant site was being cleared next to the Permanente cement works near Palo Alto. Dr. Hansgirg, who likes to wear slippers at work and think things over twice, was still bewildered. Said he of the blueprinting: "Somehow we did in three weeks what nobody can do in less than four months...
...usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared in a Geography 1 midyear exam question--the correct answer being to note the theatre's ideal location midway between Harvard Square and Charlestown Navy Yard. But that strategic site has not always been the convening place of sailors on leave and students on sprees...
...trees were only shoots, there was a fence instead of a wall, and on the site of mammoth Widener Library stood only a ramshackle privy--but this was certainly the Harvard College Yard! Over a hundred people were milling around, arguing in little clusters, or feeding the grey squirre. All seemed to be waiting for something important to happen. One group where a white-haired man with blazing eyes was listening intently to a gesticulating Negro particularly caught Vag's attention. The colored fellow's eyes bulged out like white hen's eggs as his face expressed...
Boylston Reading Room was the site of the latest escapade by Local Public Enemy No. 1, known as Snooper Man, who returned to his diabolical pastime in the small hours of yesterday morning after his examination period respite...