Word: passageways
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...tomb of the Sixth Dynasty at Naga-ed-der back in 1902. We had discovered a grave some 4000 years old. One half of it had caved in but the other part was intact. Clearing away the intact end, we found it to be the opening of a long passageway leading down into the hillside. It was filled with clean, chipped limestone and by this and other indications we knew that the tomb had not been opened from the day it had been sealed some 4000 years ago. The passage was cleared out and we entered the door...
...press of the crowd was so great that it required the combined efforts of the college police and a detachment of Cambridge patrolmen to keep it within the required bound. And it was only with the greatest difficulty that they succeeded in opening a passageway through the crowd for the cars of President Eliot and his following...
...suppose that, clearing the footlights with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed Hibernian just offstage, and yourself earn the right to that final kiss, instead of the dilatory but bandolined hero...
...growers of the West turning more and more to the sea to avoid the prohibitive price required to pay the overland carriers, experts forecast that the locks of Gatun and Miraflores will be used to the limit of their capacities within the fifteen years necessary to complete a second passageway...
...patient,--Mustapha Kemal and his Nationalist movement,--flushed with success over the heirs of Alexander, has advanced upon the town of Chanak and Kum Kale, both on the Dardanelles, and even, within two days deliberately entered the prescribed neutral zone about the passageway from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. The doctors all this while,--the Allies,--have been on the borders of hysteria. Ultimatums have passed from Britain to Kemal, and, height, of insolence, Kema! has demanded Eastern Thrace. Moreover, the Nationalist leader, accepting the Allied terms, has added the proviso that be shall continue military operations during...