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Word: passageway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press of the crowd was so great that it required the combined efforts of the college police and a detachment of Cambridge patrolmen to keep it within the required bound. And it was only with the greatest difficulty that they succeeded in opening a passageway through the crowd for the cars of President Eliot and his following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Emeritus Given Great Ovation As Students Throng Yard In His Honor | 3/21/1924 | See Source »

...suppose that, clearing the footlights with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed Hibernian just offstage, and yourself earn the right to that final kiss, instead of the dilatory but bandolined hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Peep-Holes | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

...growers of the West turning more and more to the sea to avoid the prohibitive price required to pay the overland carriers, experts forecast that the locks of Gatun and Miraflores will be used to the limit of their capacities within the fifteen years necessary to complete a second passageway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCKS | 2/13/1923 | See Source »

...patient,--Mustapha Kemal and his Nationalist movement,--flushed with success over the heirs of Alexander, has advanced upon the town of Chanak and Kum Kale, both on the Dardanelles, and even, within two days deliberately entered the prescribed neutral zone about the passageway from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. The doctors all this while,--the Allies,--have been on the borders of hysteria. Ultimatums have passed from Britain to Kemal, and, height, of insolence, Kema! has demanded Eastern Thrace. Moreover, the Nationalist leader, accepting the Allied terms, has added the proviso that be shall continue military operations during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEDICINE FOR THE SICK MAN | 9/28/1922 | See Source »

When three men start through the same door at once, and the door is built to allow passageway for two, what happens? The answer to this question would solve the mystery of the mobs at Memorial yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOB SCENE IN ACT! | 9/26/1922 | See Source »

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