Word: passageway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Buildings and Grounds has constructed a temporary wooden passageway under the west portico entrance to Memorial Church because plaster falling from the portico ceiling presented a danger to people using the entrance. B&G officials said yesterday...
...course of this work, they have discovered elaborate decorations in the catacomb located on the Via Appia Pignatelli, off the Appian Way south of the city. A burial place for rich Roman Jews, the catacomb has a small mosaic-paved courtyard aboveground, leading downward to a main passageway six feet wide, branching off into narrower tunnels. One leads to a pair of burial vaults covered with frescoes, their bright blues, reds, greens, yellows and whites still preserved. One wall depicts religious themes including, in the center, an open tabernacle showing the sacred Torah, flanked by two menorahs. The other walls...
...entrance to the second catacomb is hidden behind a mass of shrubbery on the Villa Torlonia, a 13-acre estate in the center of Rome that was once the residence of Mussolini. Slippery, moss-covered steps lead into an airy passageway lined with crude burial slots -probably designed for poorer Jews -about 1 ft. deep, 2 ft. wide and varying in length for children and adults. Both catacombs feature memorial stones carved with Greek or Latin inscriptions (Hebrew was apparently reserved for religious rites). Reads one: "Here lies Pe-gaianos, the scribe and lover of the Law." Both catacombs...
...Oval Office is symbolic of the presidency-the literal venue of the nation's power-Carter tends to use it only for ceremonial occasions and special meetings. Most of his day is spent in his adjacent small study, which is connected to the Oval Office by a short passageway. The room is sunny, the decor simple yet elegant; long curtains, gold carpet, white couch, two green easy chairs that are prime candidates for recovering. His personal secretary, Susan Clough, sits in an office adjacent to the study. When she is not typing letters or penciling in the almost constant...
...students rushing hectically to a Fine Arts class, the Fogg Art Museum often seems like nothing more than another passageway between lecture halls. Adorned with priceless objets'd'art perhaps, but still a passageway. For the approximately 2,000 visitors it entertains on a given weekend, the Fogg probably seems like nothing more than another museum. Impressive for a college collection, perhaps, but still only an MFA in miniature...