Word: undercroft
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...first things our teachers noticed," says vice principal Ilene Black, "was the change in attitude of the students. The parents are very positive; they love the fact that their children like it; they don't have to make them do their homework." John Aston, headmaster at the Undercroft Montessori School in Tulsa marvels that "some of our students are already performing at a masterful level" after less than one year...
...point for the effigies came during World War II, when the basement undercroft where they lay was flooded during an air raid. Until 1949 they rotted quietly in this man-made bog. When the undercroft was finally drained, the effigies were a jumble of decomposing rubbish. Henry VII had lost his nose. A hole in Edward III's skull showed grey underplaster. The abbey custodians had half a mind to burn the whole mess...
...left the organ and went down to the undercroft where Sexton John Frank, 58, was working. He asked Frank for a hammer, a heavy one. Then he dropped some coins on the floor. He started to pick them up, pretended a 50? piece was missing...
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