Word: catacombs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hinterland. Slowly its farms turned into city blocks, its mud streets grew cobblestones, its docks stuck fingers into the sea. First its sewers, then its wires, and finally its trains went underground. The higher its buildings rose, the deeper went their foundations. Its bowels became a vast catacomb laced with the ganglia of communication. It was an aggressive organism; it touched everything within reach, attached to itself everything it touched...
Victories by these Eastern Catacomb dwellers over the two teams previously selected as co-favorites for the title, left the Crimson five the only team in the circuit still without a victory, while Columbia and Princeton, each with two triumphs and no losses, vaulted into first place berths...
Assistant Cook A. M. McKillop was short-handed and in a tearing hurry. His supper menu at the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane, in Salem, called for scrambled eggs. He needed powdered milk to make them. Against the rules he dispatched a kitchen-helper inmate to the catacomb-like cellar to bring him a new supply...