Word: planted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, while a sinking stock-market thinned most theatre audiences, filled the Civic Repertory Theatre. Situated on drab 14th Street, it is theatrically "downtown" (28 blocks below Times Square), a dilapidated structure with a facade of fire escapes, balcony pillars obstructing the view, and an unusually oppressive heating plant. It offers few conveniences either to audience or actors except vast, barnlike spaces in which many sets of scenery may simultaneously be hung. Yet last week, and every week this season, it was jammed. It was Mrs. Hoover's first choice of a theatre to go to when she visited...
...rate, Harvard's new "swimmery" will be ready for use in March, long before the specified date. The entire plant will be completed in June, according to present estimates...
...December, 1927, an "Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust for Harvard for an undergraduate swimming pool. The conditions were that work on this plant should start within one year of February 18, 1928, and be finished within two years of that date. The plot was thickening; Mr. Bingham could not well afford to loose such generous gifts to the University and immediately asked the original "anonymous alumnus" for permission to finish $700,000 worth...
Ground for Harvard's indoor, athletic plant was broken on the required day and the bulky walls have risen. Throughout the construction of the plant, "Alumnus Aquaticus" and "Anonymous Aquaticus" have carried on steady correspondence with Mr. Bingham, the while maintaining complete anonymity. Letters have been forwarded through the two New York banks in which the runds have been deposited; a steady stream of criticism and suggestion has been forth-coming on every architectural detail. And still Mr. Bingham, try as he may is unable to establish the identity of the two Harvard benefactors. A certain similarity in the letters...
...erection of the Institute building leaves four units still to be obtained for the completion of the physical plant of the Human Welfare Group. These are the Isolation Pavilion, the Women's Pavilion, the Surgical Pavilion, and the Semi-private Pavilion Extension...