Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alan McClennen '38, Cambridge Planning Director, told the City Council yesterday that the MBTA favored the idea of using a tunnel that runs under the Square from in front of Littauer Center to Brattle Square...
...They're 100 per cent for it. They have every reason in the world to run the buses under the surface," he said. Buses running on electric power already use the tunnel as their Harvard Square station...
...bill has been filed in the state legislature that would order the MBTA to run its busses into the tunnel and there by probably deprive the DPU of its jurisdiction, according to McClennen...
Presiding over the opening of New York harbor's $325 million Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, in his capacity as chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, acerbic Robert Moses, 75, paused to chat with a newly appointed woman city employee. "Why, you're not nearly as much of an ogre as I'd been led to believe!" she exclaimed in happy surprise. "Please don't let the word get around," commanded Moses. "It will ruin my reputation...
...archaeologists dug another tunnel for some 160 feet to trace the wall. Inscribed on it were various letters. One monogram, repeated ten times, is deciphered by the excavators as "Gugu," the names under which King Gyges is mentioned in the Assyrian annals. Gyges had sent an embassy to Assyria, which ceated a sensation since the Lydian horsemen had come so far and spoke a language strange to the Assyrians...