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Completion of Moors Hall market a high point on the Radcliffe fall term calendar. fire, which broke out the week before school opened, postponed formal opening ceremonies until workmen could repair extensive damages to the first floor wing of the hall. Since all damages were confined to the first floor, however, the 103 residents moved into upstairs rooms on schedule...
Completion of Moors Hall marked a high point on the Radcliffe fall term calendar. Fire, which broke out the week before school opened, postponed formal opening ceremonies until workmen could repair extensive damages to the first floor wing of the hall. Since all damages were confined to the first floor, however, the 103 residents moved into upstairs rooms on schedule...
...diggers, with a third man who had helped them, went down into their tunnel, more than 100 feet long. After scrambling out of the tunnel, they rolled into a ditch outside the camp, and then escaped into the nearby pine forest. Dressed in the clothing of French workmen, Peter and John caught the night train to Frankfurt, while their companion, disguised as a traveling salesman, hit out for Danzig. In Stettin Peter and John had no end of trouble trying to stow away aboard a Swedish ship, finally accepted a Danish crew boss's offer to smuggle them into...
Would Director De Sica help? Well, he would give Maggiorani a job as a prop man in his next movie. "I don't think he has any future as an actor," De Sica said, "except occasionally in workmen's roles . . . I think he should go on with his regular...
Meanwhile, in the main.hall of the palace, Indonesian workmen removed the heavy, gilt-framed portraits of the imperial Dutchmen whose hardheaded commercial dealings had founded the empire. (Their pictures would soon be replaced by Soekarno's favorite paintings of Indonesian national heroes.) The old pictures sat unceremoniously on the floor: bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures...