Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare combination of modernist architecture, cosmopolitan inhabitants and the speed-up system. Beautiful to look at, Kravnik is a microcosmic capitalistic nightmare, presided over oy half-a-dozen commercial despots. Hamid, who has a perfectly good though rapidly fattening wife at home, lures stenographers into his sanctum and then makes a certain proposal. The Savoff brothers are never so happy as when they can devise some such scheme as dividing the 12-hour working day into 13 hours, to increase efficiency...
...with a firm step and clear eye that the Crimson team goes forth against the wiles of the LaFargement. Let the best man win. Victory will be celebrated in the Crimson Sanctum shortly after the match...
...circular and its walls, of sun-dried brick, were more than a yard thick. Twelve rooms were laid out around the circle, and across it were three rectangular rooms in series. The diggers believed that the largest was a cult-room and that a small anteroom was a sanctum. Mysterious bell-shaped objects made of polished marble may have served either as weights or as cult paraphernalia...
...wonder whether Harvard students, who have not yet had much acquaintance with such people, will recognize John J. Reidy and his fellow editors for what they are. We know that Benny Goodman and William Gouldston, the thugs of the Boston Red Squad, will see kindred souls in the "Crimson" sanctum...
...could hardly repress a laugh as I watched the old fellow, wiping beads of perspiration from his brow, fidgeting nervously with the golden head on his cane. Finally he walked up the stairs to the Sanctum. I could hear him moving about, piling the furniture before the door, and locking the windows. At length he called down to me through the copy shoot...