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...replacing the benches with modern study chairs, the University was planning to scrap the planks for lumber, but the Alumni Association intervened with its plan to turn the benches out to pasture. All contributions for the benches will be used for the refurbishing of Wadsworth House which is being remodeled into an Alumni Center...
...When Composer Foster died in a Bellevue charity ward in Manhattan in 1864, he left 38? and a scrap of paper bearing the five words, apparently the title for a new (and never written) song...
...debris of the Aichi torpedo plant, shook his head, said with Nagoya's curious local pride: "We had almost 25,000 workers here. In five minutes, nothing was left. No factory in Japan was so beautifully bombed." The Aichi plant, which was 95% destroyed, is being sold for scrap metal to anyone that will carry it away. Youngish Toshio Takahashi, the plant manager, says softly: "It still seems like a dream to see all this. I suppose we should tear it down quickly, but that would cost too much money...
Washington believes there is only one way out for Britain-she must scrap her restrictive bilateral trade policies, produce more cheaply, and compete for all she is worth. That would mean a revolution of sorts in British industry and a sharp reduction in some of Labor's pet projects. It would also require efficient redeployment of British workers to industries where they are needed most; that would cause temporary unemployment. The hard fact is that Britain cannot whip herself into trim competitive shape without at least temporarily lowering her standard of living...
...five children for nine years by grubbing out popular science books. In the end, he saved enough money to realize a lifetime dream, buying a couple of sun-scorched, rocky acres on the outskirts of the town of Sérignan, in the department of Vaucluse. On this scrap of earth, which he fondly called his Eden, Henri Fabre settled down, at the age of 55, to the full-time pursuit of his life work: the study of living insects...