Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with one subway station, a lavatory, and an imminent city parking lot, the subterranean section of Boston Common also seems to contain a cow-tunnel. The Paulist Fathers have been building a new Information Center on Park Street. To do this they had to tear down an old building. In the sub-basement of the old building they found eight stalls. There was at first some question about whether the stalls had held cows or witches. (Several witches were hanged at the nearby Old Granary Burying Ground). In recent weeks the digging has uncovered a number of large cisterns...
Last week Fort Worth civic leaders heard a Los Angeles and Manhattan community planner unveil a bold solution to their problem. They were advised to dig deep into the heart of their beloved Texas to create subterranean truck lanes, park every arriving automobile, and turn streets within a downtown square mile into a pedestrians' paradise of shrubbery, statuary, malls, covered walks and sidewalk cafes. The cost ($100 million, according to some guesses) would be partially paid in parking fees and through higher tax values...
...tower's troubles date back almost to the day the designs were finished by the late, famed Architect Perret. In digging the foundations, workmen uncovered a subterranean river, which had to be diverted from its course. As work progressed it turned out that the city water pressure was too low to force water above the 20th story. Then someone figured out that the building's two seven-passenger elevators would take nearly two hours to get the building's 350 prospective tenants to work...
Construction, after winning approval of the Cambridge Council, proceeded downward some four feet, at which point the Square's main power line was uncharted. After a shuffling of blueprints and a cautions detour, the digging continued a few note feet, where it met a subterranean chamber extending beneath the sidewalk from the bank's lowest level. On the street they built a five foot five inch metal box housing a mirror, microphone, loudspeaker, window, and a slot for currently. A further adornment is the policeman who directs traffic and advises depositors on the mechanics...
...Rocky Marciano with a single punch in the second round. No one has any ready explanation, although many have tried. Fred Allen cracks: "Ed Sullivan will last as long as someone else has talent. He has a natural feeling for the mental level of his audience, which is subterranean." Dave Garroway argues that Sullivan is a good master of ceremonies "because he tells the facts and then gets out of the way." Even Sullivan is mystified. He once asked a show-business friend: "What have I got?'" Replied the friend: "I don't know...