Word: pavement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nocturnal activities of her spouse claims to have seen Faulkner shot by his former secretary and mistress, Karen Andre, but he can't be sure that the corpse was Faulkner because Miss Andre proceeded to push it off her penthouse roof and it got rather spread out on the pavement many stories below...
...eggs were found when men from the Fire Station across the road were putting up an antenna for a new radio set. Two were reposing in an ancient nest, another lay broken on a balustrade below, all being 211 feet above the pavement. Ornithology may be permanently expanded as a science by the discovery...
...mile beyond the District of Columbia boundary. Orel Leen, a member of his office staff, guided the sightless Senator across the street to a store. They were on their way back when another car came zipping out of the dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving. Mr. Leen lay at the side of the road with a fractured skull. Senator Schall lay unconscious in the centre of the highway with a shattered leg, a battered head, internal injuries. Three days later in Washington...
...traffic accident about three miles away. In fifteen minutes Cameraman Cranston was on the scene of what promised to be a dull, routine assignment. The street corner was jammed with Brooklynites pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of Rose Samanoff's corpse lying on the pavement. Police reserves arrived, shooed off all but newsmen and one man who leaned against a doorway and wept. Photographer Cranston saw him approach the body, stare in bewilderment at it, sob, put his hand to his wet eyes. Finding a spot where he could get a picture showing automobile, corpse...
...Cars belonging to or operated by members of the University and their guests may be parked within the spaces indicated by white lines on the pavement between the hours of 8:00 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. As only about seventeen cars can be parked simultaneously with out blocking the traffic it is expected that car owners will use this space for short time parking only and not attempt to monopolize it for all day storage of their cars. No chauffeur driven cars may park here...