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Such delicacy served so purpose, and Harvard reluctantly proceeded. Some the walls and roof were in place; Wadsworth and the workmen spread a bouquet, gave thanks that "no life was lost, nor person hurt," and concluded with the 127th Psalm. The thousand pounds was gone, however, and the Corporation made a more candid appeal to the legislature, emphasizing the President's grievous state. He had spread his family among different homes and his belongings among different barns, and despite his exalted post had lived this way for a year. The General Court was unimpressed...
Last month workmen in Borgo San Sepolcro were remodeling a building that was, in Piero's time, the church of Sant' Agostino, but has since been turned into a movie theater and the home of the local symphony. While repairing a wall in what was once the apse, a workman touched a loose piece of plaster (spread on by Franciscan nuns who took over the church in the 16th century); it broke away under his hand. Beneath the plaster was a life-sized painting of a haloed young man, fair-haired with wide, topaz eyes. One look...
...subway a daintiness hitherto found only in boudoir and meadow. Each train traveling two of the main routes across Paris was equipped with an atomizer through which gushed a jet of perfume. On the Vincennes-Neuilly line, the fragrance was Eau de Cologne; on the Orleans-Clignancourt line, a workmen's route, it was Essence of Pine. "My," said one happy office worker arriving at his desk, "the Metro smelled deliciously today." But after a careful sniff or two, most subway riders admitted that the Metro still smelled remarkably like Old Metro...
...Workmen will this week finish transplanting in the old Yard two White Pines which were taken from North Wilmington as replacements for diseased Dutch Elms. The 30 to 35 year old trees were selected as the largest that could be moved through the gates...
...time workmen began to cart away the green baize-covered tables at the meeting's end, the U.S. had also said no to 20 lesser Latin American requests. But it said yes to 1) a task force to study ways to stabilize the price of coffee, 2) another economic conference to meet in Buenos Aires in 1956, and 3) taking steps toward lessening the impact of double taxation so that U.S. capital will be encouraged to move southward...