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...community that has reared the "Spreading Chestnut Tree," Election Oak, Whitefield Elm and Rebellion Tree would not let the Washington Elm go to the dogs. As it grew old, Cambridge doctored the tree with tar and splints. In 1874, one resident wrote, "its crippled branches swathed in bandages, its scars where, after holding aloft for a century their outstretched arms, limb after limb has fallen nerveless and decayed." The molting season was on, and lasted until 1923, when a workman, while removing a dead branch, pulled down the Elm with...
RICHARD J. CALLAHAN Oak Park...
Amid beer mugs and squat oak tables, a group of Lampon pundits gathered solemnly in 1901 to discuss a new proposal. The Lampoon, despite its ample "beer nights," had cleared one-thousand dollars that year, and the Treasurer hoped to use the money to begin a building fund. The idea was accepted enthusiastically, for Lampy had already outgrown two homes, Thayer Hall and a room on Mt. Auburn Street. The third location, a small closet in a former Holyoke Street church, was equally unsatisfactory...
...most impressive, reserved for Lampy's state occasions. At first glance, it seems extremely large because of a foreshortened perspective and triangular shape. The Hall's main features include a large, carved mantelpiece of Elizabethan vintage, serpentine electric light brackets, and suits of Japanese armor. A solid oak table stands in the center, and is deeply carved with the initials of early members who had heard that the editors of Punch possessed a similar piece. Huge oak beams form a ceiling of gothic arches, and the sun streams diagonally through leaded windows flecked with remnants of ancient stained glass...
...British, noting U.S. success, were reasonably sure of getting plutonium from their reactors, so they did not start their U-235 plant until later. The isotope plant was built at Capenhurst in Cheshire, and it uses the same process (gaseous diffusion of uranium hexafluoride) as the U.S. plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Its purpose is restoring U-235 to the partially depleted uranium from the reactors...