Word: basement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boire" is what we feel like yelling after an hour or two of reading in the library. To satisfy this need, which is particularly pressing at this time of the year, we must walk down two long flights of steps to the wash room in the basement of the library, and attempt to quench our thirst with the luke warm water of the faucet. This process takes five or ten minutes...
...gymnasium is to have a floor area of about 100 by 50 feet. It will be built under the west side of the dormitory, which so far has been reserved for a future addition. It will occupy the basement and the first floor. It will have a running track in the balcony which will be on a level with the ground. Entrances will lead directly on to the balcony, and thence by spiral staircases in the corners to the main floor of the gymnasium. The room will be large enough for basketball and also for setting up drill...
...have made it impossible to place much of the recently acquired material at the disposal of the students. For instance, a statistical collection of several thousand volumes and pamphlets on commerce and industry was received from the New York State Library, but has been left a boxes in the basement of Widener library...
...train with Colonel John Coolidge and his party; and the story is that he had treated the whole party to railroad and Pullman tickets. Although he dined at the White House as the guest of the President, he is said to have preferred to have his meals in the basement of the White House with the Secret Service men with whom he had made friends the summer before at Plymouth. He kept out of the prominent reviewing stands...
...steam, was transformed from "a wild region at the foot of a rocky mountain" to "the summit of the Valkyries' rock." Taucher, about to make his exit from the former setting, took a step into the steam, trod upon emptiness, plunged down 25 feet to the mouldy basement of the Metropolitan through a trap which had just been opened to receive scenery. Stagehands, mechanics, saw Taucher's 200-pound shape crash to the stone floor; hurried to his aid as he incredibly rose to his feet. Supported by six strong men, suffering from a broken finger, swollen wrists...