Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon City, Col, officials last week discovered a ten-foot tunnel dug by convicts since last month's deadly riot (TIME, Oct. 14). In the tunnel were found sledges, drills, crowbars, powder. Alarmed, the officials searched the entire prison, found 300 lbs. of daggers, stilettos, blackjacks, clubs, saws, knives made from files ?all the makings of another violent outburst...
Under the terms of a contract which has just been made with the Cambridge Electric Light Company, the question of a heating plant for Harvard has been settled for at least ten years to come, it was announced at Lehman Hall yesterday. Construction of a tunnel from the plant of the Company at Western Avenue and the Parkway to the foot of DeWolf Street near McKinlock Hall will be started by the University next week...
...tunnel, which will serve as a connecting link between the new source and the existing Harvard system is to be eight feet square. It will provide steam for all those University buildings immediate to the existing centers in Cambridge, the Harvard Union an such outlying buildings as the Observatory excepted...
...evening of a day on which venerable Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce had made a last appearance in chapel to announce his retirement after 30 years as Brown President.* Clad in pajamas, the freshmen assembled to burn their class neckties and march down College Hill through the trolley tunnel to the centre of Providence. Contrary to tradition, the tunnel was guarded by police, entrance therein refused. Came the first fight...
...Seine. Its grey twin towers made at once a gate to the city, a fortress, and a prison for thieves and political offenders. Old as was the Petit Châtelet, its winding subterranean crypts and dungeons were even older, and included a portion of a long forgotten secret tunnel under the Seine built when 9th Century Paris was besieged by fierce red-haired Norman pirates. The Petit Châtelet was pulled down in a popular uprising just before the Revolution, its more obvious cellars filled in and forgotten...