Word: constructively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Speaking of his own terms of office, Neville states, "Harvard was always ready and willing to help us, and we have been willing to give them a hand there." He pointed out how the city aided, by changinging its zoning laws and other ordinances when Harvard wanted to construct the Botanical Gardens housing project two years ago. Neville himself gave a lecture in a government course here last year...
...architectural information will be necessary, he said, when he builds his control center. Cronin wants to know how to construct a building which will withstand the effects of an atomic bomb. The exterior of the building will cost the city $150,000, he expects; the inside will probably cost double that figure...
...student body with a large percentage of scholarship holders, the price of entertainment is prohibitive. The College provides virtually no facilities for women guests after eight o'clock, and indeed has no room and no funds to construct new facilities if it wanted...
...buyers plan to hold the Terminal buildings, which were built in the '20s by the empire-building Van Sweringen brothers for $100 million, as a long-term investment. Some day, they may construct the three additional buildings which were in the original plan. This time Bob Young left no loopholes; he collected part of the purchase money last week, set a deadline of 30 days for the rest...
...Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke petitioned the township of Hillsborough, NJ. for the right to build a piggery in which even hogs could eat high on the hog. She proposed to construct quarters for 2,500 pigs, provide the establishment with a high pressure pen-flushing system, air-conditioning units, and atomizers to keep the flies off each and every porker. Snorted a neighboring farmer: "If she grows hogs that smell good they won't be hogs...