Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's underground steam tunnels, a secret to most members of the Harvard community, provide a direct link between many Yard buildings, river houses, science labs, the Law School and the Business School (please...
Wallace desperately needed an escape route, and Harvard Police Chief Robert Tonis came to his rescue by leading the governor and his bodyguards to the basement of Sanders Theatre--where they entered Harvard's steam tunnel system...
Tonis concluded that the spy must have evaded the FBI by using the steam tunnels, and because of that experience, Tonis extensively familiarized himself with the tunnel system--fortunately for Wallace...
...steam tunnels originate from the Cambridge Electric Company's steam generating plant on Western Ave., and contain the steam that heats most of Harvard's buildings...
...young (two-thirds were between 15 and 39 years old). In Europe's principal ports of exodus -- Liverpool and Cork, Bremen and Rotterdam -- they were beset by thieves and hucksters, cheated by ship's captains (there was no set fee for tickets to America) and, until the age of steam, often even ignorant of where they would eventually land. If they survived the journey -- and as many as one-third died aboard ship or within a year of landing in the New World -- fresh hazards awaited them in America. Among them were streetwise recent immigrants who would rob them...