Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donning civilian tweeds, Crommelin pocketed a sheaf of papers, and went downtown to get in touch with the three wire services (the A.P. man said they rendezvoused in "a shadowy corridor"). To each man Crommelin handed over a confidential letter to Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews from Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, commander of the Pacific's First Task Fleet. Crommelin insisted only that his own identity be kept secret for the moment: he wanted nothing to detract from the impact of the letter itself...
Last Monday, a series of large well-wrapt bundles appeared in the downstairs corridor of Sever. The bundles marked the culminating phase of a Great Improvement. They were the first of 1400 new desk chairs, tailor-made for Harvard and Radcliffe bottoms, to be installed in Sever classrooms during the next few months. For that venerable Victorian edifice is being entirely remodelled inside: fluorescent bulbs and light pastel color schemes are turning the place into something of a model classroom building. And in the spring, when Sever is finished, the ambitious gentlemen of the Building and Grounds Department hope...
...brisk morning last March, two ladies of serious demeanor paid a call at Brooklyn College. It was important that their mission be kept a secret. So, stating only that they were members of the Public Education Association, they bustled into a large building, hurried down a corridor, and quietly slipped into back-row seats in a history classroom...
...glow seemed to spread over the whole General Assembly on its opening day of firmly fixed smiles and heavy hand-pumping. Delegates exchanged greetings with an almost perfectly uniform ritual: strong right-hand clasp, affectionate left-hand pat on the back. The official nurse, on duty just across a corridor from the General Assembly Hall, dispensed only one headache powder the first day (to a Chilean delegate...
...Toronto's Pier 9 for an overnight stop, the Newmans went ashore for a movie, found the theaters jammed, came back to the ship to play gin rummy in the lounge. At 2:25 a.m. they smelled smoke, dropped their cards and rushed out to the corridor. Down its narrow length they saw crewmen fighting a blaze in an inside cabin on C deck...