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...Wood, summa graduate from Harvard in 1932 and now a professor at the Johns Hopkins medical school, has no trouble whatever remembering the specific incident that started him on his career as a microbiologist. Midway through his junor year, Wood chanced upon chemistry professor James B. Conant in the hallway outside a laboratory. Conant mentioned that one of his friends was currently investigating the relation between blood count and physical exercise. He suggested that a smart undergraduate might find the work interesting; and he conjectured that the men running the exercise project might be happy to have Wood around...
...sports jacket stood peering at Lamppost 35, which was marked with a crude circle in charcoal. Finally, he jumped into a waiting car and roared off toward the Moscow River. Shortly afterward, another American ducked into a house at 5-6 Pushkin Street, where he surreptitiously reached behind a hallway radiator. As he was about to pocket the paper-wrapped matchbox that had been concealed there, Russian counterespionage agents burst in and arrested...
Some 'Cliffies, however, fear that the dorms might vote unreasonable extensions of parietal hours, creating a situation in which free movement in the dorm would be obstructed. Since all rooms open directly into the hallway in Radcliffe dorms, some women feel that an increase in the time men could spend on the upper floors would be inhibiting and inconvenient...
...titles and credits come to an end, and X appears, walking through a hallway; he enters a small theater where the last scene of Rosmersholm comes to an end. Suddenly the audience, a group of young and well-dressed young people, spring to life; they greet each other and break into smaller groups to play cards and talk of their previous meetings a year ago in the same place. Their games and dances, their banal talk, constitute the second level...
...outside wall area and partly because plumbing, heating, ventilation and electrical conduits can be better concentrated in a central core. Patients' rooms are shaped like pie slices. Nurses like walking its circular corridors: "It's a kind of optical illusion-we can't see that long hallway stretching ahead." No illusion: a nurse's trip from service area to patient is only about 50 ft. as compared with an average of 90 ft. in standard hospital buildings. Another eye-catching round hospital: Charles Luckman's Valley Presbyterian in Van Nuys, Calif...