Word: construction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Senator Saltanstall's announcement, the memorial would be in three parts. The Committee would ". . . inscribe suitably the names of the Harvard dead in World War II in the Memorial Church, construct an auditorium dedicated to those who lost their lives in World War II as an addition to Memorial Hall, and further restore Memorial Hall itself, inside and out, adapting the lower level, now used by other University agencies, for meeting places or offices for extra-curricular student activities...
...little gang of power monopolists). In 1917, in the assembly hall of a swank girls' school in Petrograd, behind unwashed windows that excluded the sky, Lenin stood up. His ill-fitting, overlong trousers flapped about his feet. Gripping the rostrum, he said quietly: "We shall now proceed to construct the proletarian socialist order in Russia...
...extension of the verdict of "Missouri v. Holland," in which the Court ordered the State of Missouri to provide equal facilities but failed to mention the matter of time. Missouri, thereupon, provided a one room, one teacher law school for Negroes pending the time when it could construct more suitable accommodations...
Again Dane came to the rescue, this time with the donation of funds to construct Dane Hall. At this point the Law School entered the first of its many "golden ages," as, under Story's leadership, it grew to 150 students. To teach all these, several new instructors were appointed, including the later-to-be-famous Charles Sumner. Another Story innovation was the division of the School into classes according to proficiency...
Champagne & Sausage?. In Moscow slogans fluttered everywhere. Cloth that might have shielded shabby workers from the biting winter was daubed with likenesses of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and minor Soviet gods, and hung on buildings. Materials and labor skills which could have made houses everyone needed were used to construct gay, quaint booths for tea street fairs, where felt-booted citizens who tired of street dancing in the light November slush could buy (at fantastic prices) champagne, vodka, soda pop, bread and sausage. Truck-borne roving players mimed and capered on eleven bunting-draped stages in public squares. Fifty-three bands...