Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks the city and its garrison were entirely cut off, every man limited to three quarts of water a day for drinking and washing, a loaf of bread and some beans. Eleven months ago a Rightist relief column from Grado on the west was able to chop through a corridor 18 miles long, in some places only 1,000 yd. wide, to bring men, munitions and food into Oviedo. Still besieged on three sides was Oviedo last week, and Miguel Aranda, now a general, was still its commander, but there was plenty of food in the shell marked shops...
...south end. At the north, or Memorial Church end, a new stairway for emergency use only was built, and a new, emergency exit was cut into the northeast corner of the building to serve the assembly room, Sever 11. Further an additional stairway from the third floor corridor to the fourth was constructed making available a large room on the top floor which has been out of service for several years...
...Down the corridor from Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley's office in Washington's new Post Office Department Building, a bald gentleman who loves flute playing and the frozen North, fortnight ago finished two murals in the smooth, decorative style for which he is famed. One showed the first airmail delivery among Alaskan Eskimos, the other the same event in Puerto Rico. Neither attracted much attention until last week hale, old, Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson opportunely happened by and disclosed that one of Rockwell Kent's murals contained the nearest thing to a cryptogram now on view...
...flew from Manila to the U. S. A slim, energetic young man, whose eyebrow mustache and rimmed spectacles made him look a good deal like Comedian Charlie Chase, Wayne Coy went first to Indianapolis to testify against two politicians who last spring attacked and beat him in a corridor of the State Capitol. From Indianapolis he went to Washington where he called at the White House, was later entertained by Senator Minton, with whom he used to live...
...circle-672 ft. across-will contain a hospital, an auditorium and six separate cell blocks, with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor. Between each prisoner and freedom will be a dozen locks, electrically controlled from a tower on the wall of the main circle. Gates of each unit will be so adjusted that no two can be open simultaneously. The whole structure will be enclosed by a circular tool resistant...