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...Vivians must be quite bright and also quite tight, in both senses of the word. And before long referents are slipping, definite articles are caught in the most inappropriate positions, and "It was just their pot luck. 'Oh well, Laure offered, we were going to close down that shaftway anyway, and the subway came close...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wannabe Jabberwocky | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...flight deck. Her two working stacks (the third is a dummy) are both fed by flues that run up her sides to her topdeck. It would be a simple job of reconstruction to shift the funnels to the sides. Her four main passenger elevators are grouped in one big shaftway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Floating Airfields | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...rope the equivalent of 30 floors, he started horizontal explorations which led miles beyond any known territory. One vast underground chamber, lavishly studded with stalactites, pools of water, a fountain, Nicholson and his comrades named "Hell's Half Acre." To the north of this room was a shaftway, with levels above and below. A strong air current suggested another entrance to the cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Carlsbad Cave | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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