Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the many advantages which research students have at their disposal in this building are work-shops for the construction of scientific apparatus, cold rooms, brine-cooled to six degrees Centigrade, dark rooms, a terrarium room, an aquarium room, a corridor of sound-proof rooms, and a constant temperature room. The last is cork insulated, provided with a vestibule, and equipped with a thermostated steam radiator, thermostated brine coils, and air circulator, so adjusted that it is possible to secure constancy of internal temperature within one degree for any temperature between zero and forty degrees Centigrade...
...Gates Dawes fabricated a slapstick issue to keep himself politically alive and ended up by being a real backstage power in shaping legislation. The nearest Vice President Curtis ever came to influencing public affairs was when his vote broke a tie on tariff flexibility. Some day in the Senate corridor his marble bust will take its place along with those of James Sherman, Charles Fairbanks, Garret Hobart, Levi P. Morton, Adlai E. Stevenson and other substitutes who never got into the great game of running the country...
...delegates of the American Federation of Labor were gravely deliberating the course of their 2,532,261 membership, the course of the U. S. Workingman. On the third day of their 52nd annual convention, the delegates were briefly but thoroughly shocked. Rumblings of disorder came from an out side corridor. Backed by 25 struggling colleagues, an excited man named Louis Weinstock, member of the New York City Painters' Union, shoved his way to the banquet hall door. Thrusting away police and detectives, he cried that he represented the "A. F. of L. Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief." recruited...
Near the end of the long underground corridor, the sight of a gray naval gun can be discerned in the dim, half-light. Here in one corner is a deep sea bomb. A man is painting a periscope from a submarine in another part of the room. The Naval Science Department has asked for the use of Memorial Hall as its base, but they have been granted only a section in one of the remote parts of the basement. Once again the martial beat is in the heart...
Into one of the building's obscure back entrances that evening, hulking, bearded Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza walked slowly, tiredly. He followed a narrow, twisting corridor to a door marked PRIVATE, went in, hung up his big, loose overcoat, his black, broad-brimmed felt hat. He was early, but at the opening performance there was never any telling when a call might come for Mr. Gatti to calm some backstage confusion. Gatti had been early for 24 other opening nights. His contract has three years to run. But if this 25th opening night should be his last it would...