Word: passageway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Architects' Collaborative (TAC), whose offices adjoin the property, submitted its design for the replacement building. The plans call for a modern four-story office building of brick and limestone with stores or restaurants at street level and in the basement. The design includes a passageway from Brattle to Mt. Auburn...
...Fixing this bridge won't be easy," Milton Graton says, shaking his head as he surveys the long wood-covered passageway across the Connecticut River. "It's a complicated job. If it's done right, the bridge will be around a long time. But if it isn't, it could just fall in the river...
...computers have grown more capacious, this design has become increasingly inefficient. While it is easy to expand memory, it is hard to increase the capacity of the processor. As a result, giant machines are forced to draw their data through a single narrow passageway known by computer scientists as the Von Neumann bottleneck...
...kitchen are rusted cast-iron stoves, muffin tins in the ovens, wire whisks the size of basketballs suspended from a rack. From down a dim passageway comes the sound of boots crunching glass underfoot, and out into the light appears a rat patrol, four hard hats spreading poison. From the darkest corners the beams of contractors carrying out inspections by flashlight dance around like fireflies...
...last Thursday with students drifting in ones and twos into the library. To the security guards on duty in the four-story former U.S. embassy building, everything seemed normal. A block away, police officers showed no concern when some other well-dressed young people began to collect in a passageway under the City Hall Plaza. Then, without warning, the youths rushed up from the passageway and began racing toward the building, flinging rocks and bottles at startled policemen. Surging inside, they joined the students already in the second-floor library and announced that they were taking the place over. Visitors...