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...scant hundred feet from the Senate Office Building lies a dismal little thoroughfare named Schott's Alley. Its huddled brick houses have no plumbing, heat or electricity. In summer, the stench of its outdoor privies drifts through the open windows of the apartment building where many Senate secretaries live. But few Senators know that it exists...
Police, fearing that the old staircase in the Martin home might collapse, barred visitors from the house. The street had to be roped off but the pilgrims still came, hoping to dip handkerchiefs, rosaries, even facial tissues in the scant droplets that sometimes fell when the child kissed the head. Only Shirley Anne's grandmother claimed they had the healing virtue: they had cured her neuralgia, she said...
...made possible only by the Graphotype,*a machine perfected by the Trib (and copied by its rivals) since the start of the strike. Two weeks ago, when a disastrous midnight fire gutted a southern Illinois hospital, the Trib had a Graphotype bulletin in its One-Star Final in a scant 15 minutes...
...hotshot, loaded with ephedrine and the will to win, can navigate the distance in the neighborhood of a half hour. For the record, the best time was turned in by one John T. Potter '42, a two time winner who hurtled the ten and a half miles in a scant 28 minutes, 30 seconds back...
Early in the first half, Eddie Davis got possession of a loose ball a scant four inches from the Crimson goal line to quell one McGill rally, and time ran out when the Canadians threatened to tie it up in the final minutes...