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Word: stairway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON reporter asked his opinion of it. "It leaves no suitable shelter from rain for people who are waiting for cars in the center of the square," he said. "And the proposed exit in front of the Cambridge Trust Co. building would allow no escalator, and only a narrow stairway. The underground structure furthermore is complicated, and people would have to go under the outward bound trains to reach the inward bound. There would also be conflicting lines of traffic in the corridors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATE WILL FACE HARVARD SQUARE TRAFFIC PROBLEM | 1/22/1924 | See Source »

...canvas is the work of John Singer Sargent, whose portrait of Major Henry Lee Higginson is hung in the Union, and whose wall paintings adorn both sides of the main stairway in Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PORTRAIT OF PRES. LOWELL NOW HANGS IN FACULTY ROOM | 1/16/1924 | See Source »

...main change in the building will be the construction of a second story over the theatre to contain a kitchenly in the dining room. Aside from this, tion of the main stairway to lead directly into this dining room. Aside from this, the main building of the club house will be left intact and the front elevation on Holyoke Street will remain unaltered

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HASTY PUDDING AND INSTITUTE COMBINE | 11/27/1923 | See Source »

...course, is a very small country. The world is all agog in expectation of what the mathematical moron will have to say. A dollar's worth of one-mark notes laid end to end ought easily to reach the moon, and a hundred dollars' worth might build a stairway to Paradise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GOD SAVE THE MARK!" | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

When Does the Goose Creep Into the Flesh? It was nearly half past three in the morning. Somewhere a clock tolled the hour-twelve long strokes. Down the shadow-shrouded stairway moved a skeleton, clad only in a pair of violet pajamas. Softly, sibilantly, the spectre sped. An errant mouse cried out in terror, his hoarse shriek breaking the tense stillness. At the foot of the stairs a single, shining shaft of moonshine drenched the leg of a human being, severed at the knee, lying in a pool of gore. Arsenic Hatpin, gentleman capitalist, inserted a single eyeglass deftly into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Blackjack Fiction | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

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