Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presentation before the Cambridge Transportation Forum at Cambridge City Hall last night, Don Durano, of the MBTA's consulting firm Sverdrup & Parcel, said the University had expressed opposition to construction outside of Harvard Yard but that the proposed tunnel under Radcliffe Yard had not been discussed...
...first plan would involve extending the Harvard Square subway tunnel along Mass Ave around the Yard up to Chauncy St. It would require two-and-one-half to three years of above-ground digging, according to Durano...
...power. He wants to liquidate them to consolidate his power and go on to bigger plots. His plan is carried out almost according to the letter, with just one hitch, stashed right at the end of the movie like a one-celled flashlight at the end of a long tunnel...
Next the miners descend in an elevator to the mine, far below the surface. There they file into a tiny rail car for the ride to the mine face, the wall of solid coal at the end of the tunnel where the coal is actually extracted. During the four-mile journey, the beams from the lamps on the miners' hats bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat...
...light at the end of the tunnel in the United Mine Workers contract negotiations went out last week, and the nation was faced with the certainty that a dreaded nationwide coal strike would begin midnight Monday. The key question was how long the 120,000 union miners would stay out. U.M.W. President Arnold R. Miller predicts a strike lasting about two weeks; Interior Department officials figure that the walkout could go on for three weeks -and that underground mines would stay closed for a week after that while federal inspectors check them for safety. Even a short shutdown would damage...