Word: pavements
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...entrance hall will have lofty stained glass windows, a massive vaulted roof supported by stone piers, and a testalated pavement. On each side of the entrance will be two undergraduate reading rooms: the Reserved book room containing nearly 40,000 volumes for general use and the Linonia and Brothers' Room with over 30,000 books of general character. The last named room will be, in purpose and use, almost exactly like the Farnsworth Room of Widener Library. This room is planned to be the most beautiful in the building...
...younger horse clip-clopped into the puddle. He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt. . . . And a very old man who was watching from the pavement decided that the puddle was in truth a magic puddle - perhaps the same puddle Ponce de Leon was looking for when he saw in dreams the goldern city of Cathay. The old man tottered across the Boston street and thrust his hand into the water...
They can lead though. I found this little contribution upon the sunny pavement of a cool afternoon and was warmed by it. It is as the old fellow who still remembers when there was a Greenwich Village so often says "quite different." Yes, Quite...
...last week he got up too late to eat breakfast. As the hours passed he noticed that the air was getting curiously dark. A little drum pounded in the back of his neck. Suddenly his bell slipped out of his hand and jangled, with a thin note, to the pavement. Mr. Zobel pitched forward on his face. Death, said the city doctors, had resulted from heart failure...
...Daily News was first. In its pages appeared the photograph of a man who had just been struck by a truck. He was shown lying on his back on the pavement, a disheveled white-faced form, under the caption SPEEDY WORK BY CAMERA MAN. As a matter of fact, the "speedy work" was not so notable as it might have seemed, for the accident had occurred within a stone's throw of the editorial rooms of the News; a camera man had merely to dash down stairs and run a block to take the offensive photograph. In this example...