Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Night, Girls. The Italians knew that the Gran Sabana was full of miners, and that several had been trailing them. They had to work fast. They slept in the open, bolted what food Indians brought them, worked at night with flashlights. They would not even stop to build a shelter; that would have taken a whole day and they were making 10,000 bolivares...
...sometimes ran as high as ?5 after midnight. Before he died in 1928, wealthy (from paper mills), eccentric Edward Warren sat down and wrote a 59-page will. One among many bequests: a straightfaced offer of ?3,000 to Corpus Christi, provided college authorities would use the money to build a tunnel under the walls so that stragglers could get to bed without 1) paying fines, or 2) climbing walls. The will allowed Corpus Christi officials 20 years to think it over...
Raymond, A. Fitzgerald, deputy state commissioner of education and originator of the plan, said he thought it was better to improve existing institutions than to build new ones. He claimed the 1000 scholarships would keep top scholars from going out of the state and attract them to state schools...
...model trains students generally think of Lionel toys they had when they were younger. Among connoisseurs these trains are contemptuously spoken of as "tin-plates" and they will have nothing to do with them. Hobbyists deal only with exact reproduction of commercial and antiquated trains, all of which they build themselves...
...Student Council, elections held and the year's program planned. The club hopes to get outside speakers, schedule movies, and to take numerous short photography trips. Robert P. Gillis '52, president of the club hopes to arouse interest in model railroads. If enough men respond, the club will build a complete layout in the basement of one of the houses or yard dormitories...