Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome had a subway tunnel that stretched, Romans said, "from nowhere to nowhere." It began under the Colosseum and meandered five miles southwest to the site of a projected Fascist fairground outside the city. Last year the city fathers decided to complete the project by extending it 1¼ miles, from the Colosseum to the central railway station...
Archeologists fought the idea. Using ancient and often inaccurate maps, they protested that the new tunnel would smash through the unexplored remains of the palace of Marcus Aurelius' wife Faustina. It might even barge into the buried red-light district of the 2nd and 3rd Centuries, A.D. Cried scholarly Dr. Roberto Lanzara: "Builders will strike something of great archeological and historical interest every 100 yards." But the engineers...
...drew up plans for a more beautiful lamp post on which signs too cluttered to read would be replaced by simple initials which almost nobody would understand (samples: NTB for No Trucks or Busses, MT for Merging Traffic, ERD for East River Drive and QMT for Queens Midtown Tunnel...
Archeology. In Hamilton, Wash., hard-working burglars finally completed a tunnel through the vault floor of the State Bank of Hamilton, which has been out of business for four years...
...other tunnels are planned for construction when the ground has thawed. A steam tunnel will run from Wigglesworth along Lamont and under Quincy Street to the Union. The other, starting in Lamont, will lead to Houghton...