Word: egress
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Blueprints, drawn up to provide additional means of emergency egress from both buildings, are now in the hands of the State Department of Public Safety...
Leaks began at once. Turkey asked the right not only to fortify the Dardanelles but virtually to control passage of the straits, whether by sea or air. Russia, having France on her side, hammered demands that Black Sea countries (like Russia) should have unrestricted entrance and egress, while nonBlack Sea countries should have their war boats virtually excluded. A dextrous word wangler, Comrade Litvinoff favored the Conference with his explanation of why the Red Navy, although "wholly not aggressive," must be able to rush out of its Black Sea at any moment. The reason is, according to the Soviet Foreign...
...state law on schoolhouses says: "Schoolhouses shall have at least two independent egresses, as far as may be, aggregrating at least two feet for every 100 persons that the building will accommodate, including the assembly hall and gellery if such are to be used for other than school purposes, whenever the school is in session. No such egress shall be less than 3 feet 6 inches in width...
Harvard Hall does not fulfill these regulations in every detail, there being only one egress, and the stairway being too narrow...
...great mop of grey hair, Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour. In Geneva they used to know him as the perennial No. 2 French Delegate to the League, Aristide Briand being No. 1. Often, while No. 1 slumbered or seemed to slumber in his aisle seat, blocking the egress of other French Delegates, nimble No. 2 would leave and return to his seat by leaping lightly over a desk, thus permitting No. 1 to slumber...