Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classes of '99, '00 and, '01 which added the bronze eagle memorial situated over the main hall entrance. Other Spanish-American War mementos include a rapid-firing cannon from the cruiser Harvard which now rests in the basement guarding General Education A offices. Carved panels on one wall of the dining room mark a project known as the Harvard Hall of Fame. Soon after Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Sumner had achieved their niches, alumni surrendered the project as being too expensive...
...firm, told how the threats of union goons drove him to the Scranton city solicitor. James McNulty, for protection. McNulty, it turned out, was also lawyer for the building trades' unions. Cochran said he was warned that if union members committed any crime, such as pushing over a wall of Cochran's new house, City Solicitor McNulty would defend the unionists. And in fact, several days later, the wall was damaged...
...roof was a honeycomb of tiny solar cells that used the sun's rays to heat the house, furnish all the electric power. Doors and windows opened in response to hand signals; they closed automatically when it rained. The TV set hung like a picture, flat against the wall-so did the heating and air-conditioning panels. The radio was only as big as a golf ball. The telephone was a movielike screen, which projected both the caller's image and voice. In the kitchen the range broiled thick steaks in barely two minutes. Dishes and clothes were...
...gyrations in Lukens stock began when President Charles Lukens Huston Jr., 50, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal as saying that the company's first-quarter earnings would be "equal to, if not better than" 1956 average quarterly earnings of $1.97. Since word had been making the rounds in Wall Street that Lukens' per-share earnings might be as high as $5, this was interpreted as pessimistic news. A deluge of sell orders forced suspension of trading, later sent Lukens stock spinning down by 7⅞ points...
...both are ruined. She has slept the night on his floor. He has bought her drinks, and "a man who'd let a young girl get stocious drunk is almost as bad as a fornicator.'' Soon, the school knows, and the writing is on the jakes wall for Dev. Yet-most horrible touch of all-Dev is forgiven, and it is put about that "nothing" has happened. "If it wasn't so pitiful, it would be funny," says Una in an exact summary of the book itself. It is Dev's tragedy to remain...