Word: catacombs
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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...
...west portico of the brand new Supreme Court Building in Washington, into which Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall (as a boy), Architect Cass Gilbert and himself. The brothers' business boomed. The red brick house grew to a 20-room catacomb of high-ceilinged workshops, spare of furniture, full of great lumps of stone, clay, plaster. One piece, a huge statue of James Monroe, ordered and paid for by a Venezuelan President who lost his job unexpectedly, stood around for 30 years until the Piccirillis gave it to the State...
When the case led him into conflict with Professor Moriarty, beetling-browed ruler of London's underworld who held his councils in a fearsome catacomb, Sherlock blandly donned his double-peaked cap and walked into the Professor's ambush-a lethal chamber. He smashed the single lamp, deluded his captors by leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved...