Word: passageways
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...only way to reach the locker rooms from the field at Washington is through a passageway which starts just beside the Washington players' bench. When Chapman reached the passageway on his way off the field. Earl Whitehill, Washington pitcher, called him a bad name. This was more than Fielder Chapman, already humiliated, could bear. He rushed at Whitehill, hit him. Umpire Moriarty tried to pull the fighters apart but failed. This time, all the players on both teams rushed at each other not to stop the fight but to enlarge it. Private detectives, uniformed policemen and about 300 spectators...
Principal rooms in the new wing have been reproduced from the Naumberg home in New York. The entrance to the east wing is through a passageway leading into a room which is a original furniture and decorations. Two other rooms correspond to the former living room and balcony, with a connecting foyer and stairway. In these rooms the paintings and other works of the collection have been placed in an informal manner, corresponding to the Farnsworth Room in Widener Library. This is in accord with the terms of the bequest, by which Mrs. Naumberg requested that as little as possible...
...prowl speculatively through its grottoes. To the south side of the Rock are vineyards, whose owners use the caves to store their wine tuns. Something in one of the cellars attracted Dr. Maiuri's attention. He picked at a wall, found that it blocked a trapezium-shaped passageway 20 ft. high, 10 ft. wide at the bottom, 40 ft. long. Lateral tunnels led to the sheer face of the Cumaean Rock. The tunnels admitted light...
...main passageway was a large, natural rock room with three big niches. The niches apparently afforded living quarters for the Sibyl and her servants. The large room must have been her audience chamber. (Virgil refers to its concavity.) From that chamber radiated three small passageways leading to three pools where the Sibyl bathed before going through her leafy mysteries. Dr. Maiuri, delighted by the reality of what for 2,400 years had been deemed legend, stood silent, heard naught but the clop clop of water dripping from the crevices of the Cumaean Rock...
...secretive about its vaults is Federal Reserve Bank of New York, perhaps feeling that the massiveness of its defense system would forestall any foolish foray upon it. Barrier after barrier protects the gold room which lies 85 ft. below street level, can be entered only through a 4-ft. passageway which cuts through a 9-ft. steel cylinder, a turn of which can shut it off. Outer wall below the street is 8½ ft. of steel and concrete. Throughout the building upstairs are secret alarms, turned on by gentle knee or elbow pressure. These are sometimes rung in error...