Word: siting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands upon a site formerly occupied successively by the residences of Montezuma and Hernando Cortez...
Historians have long wrangled about the site of the tomb of Christ. Tradition for some 1,500 years has indicated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and although certain unnecessarily logical scholars of the past century pointed out that the disposition of the walls of that city make it impossible that this could have been the place, popular sentiment has, quite justly, overruled them. It is, at all events, difficult to be sure, because one of the only positive things that is known about the tomb that is thought to be Christ's, is that it was, during...
With the opening of College, the Harvard Cooperative Society announces the completion of its new building which has been erected on its former site. The present home of the Cooperative Society embodies many improvements calculated to increase its usefulness. The new building follows the architectural design of the majority of Harvard buildings, the traditional brick and limestone, and provides facilities for future expansion when needed...
...impossible for the planes to take off from land. This cut down their cruising radius from 1,000 to 700 mi. and made necessary a food and fuel way-station betwen Etah and Axel-Heiberg Land. During the past fortnight the planes scoured Ellesmere Land for a safe site and thought to have found one in Flagler Fjord. They left some fuel and oil, flew back to camp for more, returned and found a grinding field of ice had taken possession. More hunting in and out of that dangerous, glacier-hung shore and they put down another depot in Sawyer...
Recently, however, Manhattan has re-entered the competition. A building syndicate has acquired the block hounded by Lexington Ave., Depew Place, 43rd and 44th Sts., adjacent to the Grand Central Station. On this site will be erected a building rising 30 stories above the street level, and extending seven stories beneath it; it will he completed Mar. 1,1927. The new structure will be the largest office building in the world, since it will contain 21,000,000 cubic feet and have 1,350,000 square feet of office space?30,000 more than the General Motors Building...