Word: passageway
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Authorities believe that the forerunners of the American Indian came to this continent from Siberia by a passage across the Bering Sea. In 1948, a Peabody Museum expedition discovered that no migrations had taken place across the Aleutian Islands passageway...
...hung, listing now at 60 degrees; at times the deck was almost perpendicular. The captain clawed his way among his ten passengers (five women, a boy, four men) with a bottle of brandy, reassured them, had them covered with blankets as they huddled together for the night in a passageway...
...dials, and a plethora of red, green, and orange lights. From here operator can control everything on inside the big concrete walls. the operator, up against the wall, is a triple tier of counters on stilts which merrily click and boast little varicolored lights their own. Along the passageway to the gray edifice are large boxes with additional controls. Cyclotron consists of three major...
...weeks ago a retired janitor named Albert H. Grimes was slowly starving to death in Baltimore's Sinai Hospital. A cancerous growth in his esophagus had blocked off the passageway from his mouth to his stomach. He could eat no solids, and only a thin trickle of liquid was getting through...
...make their annual selection. A waiter battled his way through the crowd, muttering: "My God, four ballots and five Pouilly-Fuissés and still these gentlemen have decided nothing!" Someone said: "They are not going to award a prize this year, they are not..." A voice roared: "Passageway! Clear a space for the photographers!" The door of the inner room opened, and looking solemnly down on the surging crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest (67) member of the academy, who, by tradition, must announce the winner. Slowly Mac Orlan came down the steps, pushed...