Word: second-floor
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...modern world has never seen more than a faded hint of the magnificent frescoes executed by Raphael for the Vatican Palace's second-floor loggia. For three centuries after they were painted, the gallery's 13 bays had no windows; wind and rain tore at the pictures. Man was even more cruel: the frescoes were mutilated during the sack of Rome in 1527, later by Napoleon's troops in 1798; since then they have been botched by well-meaning restorers...
...merger was originally proposed as a space-saver, since it would eliminate over 2,000,000 duplicate cards. Metcalf proposed to move the second-floor catalogue--which contains listings by author, subject, and title--into the first floor Union Catalogue--which has listings, by author only, of almost every book in the University...
...Shall Go." Inside the Blair house, Stevenson alternately watched television on the first floor, then worked in a second-floor room while listening to the radio. He was deeply moved by the demonstration that roared through the convention hall when his name was placed in nomination. He sent out a statement: "I had hoped they would not nominate me, but I am deeply affected...
...night last week, tearful women keeping vigil outside the presidential residence in Buenos Aires saw what they were watching for: a dim light in a second-floor room snapped out. Inside the darkened chamber, President Juan Perón walked away from the bedside of his wife. To waiting cabinet ministers he said, heavily, "Evita is dead...
...first few days in Denver were billed as "leisurely" ones, but they were leisurely only by the standards of a political campaigner. Ike was up every morning at 7, by 8:30 was meeting with members of his 27-man staff in their second-floor offices at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. Sitting behind a seven-foot mahogany desk, Ike spent his mornings dictating speeches to a male stenotypist, conferring with his staff or answering letters...