Word: gating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Proud though the American Museum is of its fish and animal collections, it is prouder of (and more famed for) its bird and dinosaur collections. Pride of other U. S. museums: Chicago's Field, botanical material; Washington's National, technical progress; San Francisco's Golden Gate, habitat groups of North American animals; Denver's Colorado, arrow heads and prehistoric bison: Washington's Red Cross, war material: Yale, fossil vertebrates; Harvard, birds and glass flowers...
...these twilight recitals. At slight hardship to this more worthy class but for great benefit to the meticulously prompt, a more rigid system of ushering seems advisable. Under the present regulations a person is allowed admittance to the main auditorium as soon as he arrives within the outer gate, no matter what is going on inside. As a consequence, the first half hour of the recital is accompanied be the incessant rattling of an archal lock and the resulting removal of outer garments...
...whole being called the Takamikura. Enclosing the Takamikura with the spaciousness of an airplane hangar rose the mighty Shishinden or Temple of Enthronement. Beneath the eaves of its high thatched roof, the Shishinden was open along its entire Southern side, facing a vast court yard, with the Sun Gate to the left (East) and the Moon Gate to the right (West). Within the hangar, Shishinden, near but slightly to the left and behind the Takamikura, stood a similar "Throne," the Michodai, "smaller by a tenth" - for the Empress. Pedastals and chairs were lacquered jet black...
...crowd he said: "I think I ought to tell them I am grateful to them. . . . I have come to think of this strip of railroads across the middle of America as my own Main Street, on which I make my journeys from my office to my own front gate...
...Pennsy terminal at Manhattan is also electrified. Steam trains cannot linger underground in the tunnels that Manhattan traffic necessitates. So from Hell Gate, where the Pennsylvania connects with New England lines, to Manhattan Transfer in New Jersey, where steam locomotives replace electric ones for the long Pennsylvania hauls south and west, and to Long Island City where the Pennsy's Long Island trains change from electricity to steam-within all that great triangle electric locomotives haul the cars. For the same reason at Manhattan the New York Central hauls its trains by electricity to Harmon and the New York...