Word: corridorful
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...Warsaw everyone knows that Poland will go to war the moment any nation menaces her corridor to the sea. The greatest living Pole restated this axiom of his nation in Manhattan last week. Not for 13 years has Ignace Jan Paderewski been Premier of Poland. He and Poland's present Dictator, eccentric Marshal Pilsudski, are on barely civil terms. But every Pole backed Pianist Paderewski when he exclaimed...
...believe those fortune tellers who predict a return to prosperity provided the Corridor be given back to Prussia! That is a tale for children. A new partition of Poland would be an evil deed...
Delegates are asked to appear promptly at 7.30 o'clock at the downstairs entrance of New Lecture Hall on Oxford Street. They will be registered in the corridor downstairs and will then pass through to the opposite end of the corridor, going upstairs to the far entrance of the large lecture room. The delegates will be seated on the main floor, arranged by states, with placards to indicate the name of each state...
...student: an average Freshman, especially if he leans toward a technical field, is too anxious to finish studying, and start work. It is true that the Engineering School must always be an undergraduate school to conform to the terms of the McKay bequest. Since this is so, and the corridor must exist, let it be as narrow as possible, so that few, if any, can enter. Not many engineers would regret having spent two extra years in obtaining a broader education of this sort...
Next day Mookini was aboard the Malolo before sailing time. Suddenly a little naval tender darted up offside the liner. Through a cargo port jumped Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and his wife. Mrs. Massie scampered around a potato bin, through a pantry-and there in a hot corridor stood Mookini with his summons. Before the Hawaiian could read it, he was shouldered put of the way by Capt. Ward Wortman, naval guardian for the defendants during the Kahahawai trial. Mrs. Massie slipped past, fled to her stateroom, slammed the door. Capt. Wortman and process server wrangled bitterly outside. On deck...