Word: passageway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, he moved the eclair somwhere into my inner ear. Fearing the Harvard-made custard would soon cut off the air supply to my brain and permanently block my aural passageway, I decided I had better oblige my dinner guests...
...tunnel-builders. Instead of burrowing under it, they chose to build over it--by means of the Weeks Bridge. The pipes that warm the Business School and the Soldiers Field complex snuggle in the hollow space beneath the walkway surface but above the arches that support the bridge. The passageway here is a wooden catwalk that runs up and over these rippling arches, creating a space that is quite high between the humps, smaller on the top of the arches, but always high enough to walk through, with an occasional stoop...
...garde of the litigant spirit that is most unsettling. If one can blame the Government for a lightning strike and a corporation for a wind gust, it is easy to imagine tracking almost any mishap to some distant agency. Should owners of property on which there is a public passageway prohibit barefoot pedestrians or else assume liability for every stubbed toe? Must the manufacturer of a knife clearly label it as dangerous or else be vulnerable to damages for a kitchen worker's sliced finger? Could the designer of a dam be blamed if a voluntary swimmer drowned...
...month, either of the female's two ovaries may contribute an ovum. Then the egg enters the nearby fallopian tube. If coitus has taken place, the egg will shortly run into a swarm of tailed sperm that have managed, like salmon battling upstream, to fight their way into this passageway. In a dramatic headlong plunge, a single sperm will penetrate the waiting ovum's outer layer, its 23 chromosomes joining the egg's 23. That produces the full complement of 46 chromosomes, which contain all the genetic instructions necessary to produce a complete human being...
...however, the building was declared a city landmark, and restoration began in 1976 under the direction of Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. Philanthropist Enid A. Haupt funded the entire cost of the renovation with a gift of $5 million. The result is both handsome and ingenious. Even a new underground passageway, which left to its own devices would resemble nothing so much as a subway tunnel, will be put to pleasant use: in artificial light, aquarium plants, mushrooms and mosses will flourish...