Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommendations drawn up by the committee during the past year have been turned over to McGinnis and Walsh, architects for Moors Hall, who will blueprint the library plans. McCutcheon and Co., contractors for Moors Hall, will handle construction...
...operatic stage to you for your pleasure. Without its mothballs and sometimes outdated traditions, the music and action take on new life and dramatic power." This introduction is typical of those to be found in the fall course catalogue for the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, a twelve-year-old information bazaar housed in William Brattle's 294-year-old manse next to the Brattle Hall Theater...
...other people's business could at the same time be heartily in favor of high tariffs, and subsidies of farm prices, and subsidies of railroads, and subsidies of merchant shipping. Alice, having stayed too long in Wonderland, might not know that the party that had no issue in last year's election might easily create one for 1950 and 1952 by talking, talking, talking about the "welfare state" as if the words really have a grim, solid meaning...
...first HMC-sponsored climb was probably to the granite quarries in Quincy, whose smooth, vertical walls were originally cut away for the Bunker Hill Monument. By 1932 the Club had graduated from the molehills of Quincy to the mountains of Asia, and joined in a year-long expedition that reached the top of Minya Kouka--the biggest peak in China--despite makeshift wood-and-iron equipment. The party's original equipment had been shanghaid, logically enough, in Shanghai...
...into a glacial flood, (2) lost half of their local porters in a mass mutiny, (3) had to make six trips down a 12-mile gorge to carry in supplies, and (4) had a case of ptomaine poisoning 1000 feet from the summit. After half a year of work, only two of the party reached the peak. They spent an hour there and left...