Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty feet underground in the vault of London Safe Deposit Co., the Queen-Empress used her key, locked up a packet she had brought from Buckingham Palace...
...charm there are natural inconveniences, and perhaps for ordinary table-studying the other House libraries are better equipped. The selection of books reflects the predominance of Economics, Romance Languages, and English specialists in the personnel of the House. In the cellar of Hicks House the Library has its massive vault for precious books, where carefully guarded from the vulgar eye lie such treasures as an Ellesmere edition of Chaucer, and an early set of Beaumont and Fletcher. In addition, in order to protect the sensitive spirits of Kirkland House, the library has placed Mother Goose Censored, the Limericks of Norman...
...Laboratory and Vault...
...work in Cambridge is carried on in a large X-ray laboratory and special vault which extends beyond the wall of the main building. These rooms have been constructed in the basement of the new Research Laboratory, and located so that the rest of the laboratory may be protected from the distrubing influence of the high voltage X-ray tubes...
...large X-ray laboratory and vault in the basement, located so that the rest of the laboratory may be protected from the disturbing influence of the high-voltage X-ray tubes...