Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debated buildings house 14 tenants, including two Harvard Square landmark restaurants, The Tasty and Wursthaus. They were constructed in the late 1700s, joined by a single wooden facade in 1896 and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
...photo of the unmarked wooden crosses in the northern tundra reminded me of my youth. In 1945, my physician father and I were taken by the Soviet NKVD (more recently the KGB) from our home in Budapest, Hungary, and, though innocent, accused of espionage. (After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the charges were dropped.) We were shipped to the labor camps (Gulag) of the dreaded Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where I spent eight years between life and death. At one point, I weighed 85 lbs., and only a miracle saved me from joining those wooden crosses. My father...
...bank and Stubbins Associates, a local architectural firm, propose to raze the buildings between the bank and Pizzeria Uno's on JFK Street. These four buildings are joined by a single wooden facade and house 14 tenants. Neither Cambridge Savings Bank's building nor Pizzeria Uno's is part of the proposed project...
Hemner deflected a suggestion by committee member Hugh A. Russell '64 that the group preserve the wooden facade and make major interior improvements...
...deprivation. Even at the peak of midsummer, a soul-chilling fog blows in off the Arctic Ocean and across the mossy tundra, muting the midnight sun above the ghostly remains of a slave-labor camp. The mist settles like a shroud over broken grave markers and bits of wooden barracks siding bleached as gray as the bones of the dead that still protrude through the earth in places. Throughout Siberia, more than 20 million perished in Stalin's Gulag...