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...most unceasing job performed by the department, however, is that of maintenance. The variety of this task requires a large staff of skilled workers to keep up the acres of grounds and the many buildings which make up the physical being of the University. At the right--reworking a weatherworn plaque from Leverett House. The department has a whole building of repair shops for such jobs down the river on Memorial Drive...
When scientists try to explain the weatherworn, lichen-covered slabs, the activities of past diggers are as much hindrance as help. Inquisitive Roman legionaries made some confusing excavations. One of the larger stones, or Trilithons, is said to have fallen in 1620 when the Duke of Buckingham dug for buried gold. For years a Salisbury hotel kept a heavy hammer for the use of guests who were amateur relic hunters...
...maneuvering Spitfires were not the only show of strength which Great Britain had staged to impress China's Communists, whose armies had swept up to Hong Kong's borders. Across the harbor from Hong Kong island, on the flinty, weatherworn mountain of South China's Kowloon peninsula (which the British rule under a 99-year lease), men of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and the King's Own Scottish Borderers were training to the peak of battle efficiency. Said a brisk regimental commander: "We know our enemy, and we are ready...
...Carson Pirie Scott, a leading Chicago department store, displayed the weatherworn New Testament which Sergeant John Bartek read to buoy up Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his raftmates adrift on the Pacific...
...advances, it can be seen that it will follow closely the general scheme of design of the Union, and that it will hamonize with its surroundings. Brick and limestone are being used in its construction and have been laid so that, as soon as the new building becomes slightly weatherworn, it will be difficult to distinguish it from the old. The passages which connect the two are being cut through the walls of the Union as fast as the work progresses far enough. At present those in the basement and the first and second floor have been made. The walls...