Word: archway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last I came under a huge archway and beheld the Grand Lunar exalted on his throne in a blaze of incandescent blue . . . The quintessential brain looked very much like an opaque, featureless bladder with dim, undulating ghosts of convolutions writhing visibly within . . . Tiers of attendants were busy spraying that great brain with a cooling spray, and patting and sustaining...
...modern style construction would not clash with existing buildings, Chermayeff added, "because the essence of Harvard is not a particular style but the blending of styles." He noted "the archway entering an open area, and the view onto a closed quadrangle." There are no enclosed courtyards in the student design...
Above one of the most traversed pathways into the Yard, there is engraved on the gate archway "Enter to Grow in Wisdom." After aweing busloads of professional sightseers with this sentiment for decades, the University has now turned its back on growth, or at least, nocturnal growth. The gate and its fellows, as you know if you intend to pass the coming mid-term examinations, are locked promptly at 8 p.m. And so, with misgivings we continue what bids to become an editorial crusade: we request once more that the gates be unlocked until midnight...
...march. Scouts in the van investigate likely targets and lead an "ant-sea" attack to devour everything living within reach. But for all their ferocity, the drivers die in direct sunlight. Forced to cross bare ground on a bright day, they quickly throw up earth to form a covered archway as protection, and march...
Last week, when news of the crime became public, Panechates, his vicious murder unavenged, was back in his usual box in an archway outside an exhibition of Chinese art. All that could be done was to change the sign above his bier and restore to him his rightful name...