Word: subterranean
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Manhattan's worldlywise, bee-busy Museum of Modern Art has a plushy, subterranean auditorium where, between series of movie classics, its customers have heard Mexican music, Brazilian music, movie music, Parisian music (by Darius Milhaud). Last week Museumgoers heard something even more tittupy: the first of six "Coffee Concerts" whose artists will range from an angel-winged, guitar-playing Negro bishop to a squeeze of Spanish bagpipers...
...there were still some subterranean blurps and rumbles. The soft-coal squabble smoldered into its fifth week and Southern operators split from the Appalachian wage conference. United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and the Northerners had reportedly agreed on a new wage rate of $7 a day, but Southern operators refused to budge from their offer of $6.21. Reopening of Northern mines, strike-shut for two weeks, would return two-thirds of the nation's soft-coal fields to production. A few steel plants, which use soft coal converted into coke, had already had to shut down some...
...civil war has raged with indescribable bitterness, but always under cover. None could afford to break through the patriotic unity that William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman maintained in all sincerity. But in the strata below Knudsen and Hillman, the subterranean fires raged...
Only one person was killed, little serious damage done. Severe quakes of the kind that ravaged Rumania last autumn are caused by gradually built up stresses and sudden slips along faults (fractures) in subterranean rock. They typically occur in geologically "young" regions where mountain building or volcanic activity are common. The rocks of the northeastern U. S. are old, have long since settled down to geological sleep. No major stresses and slips can occur...
Followed by tail-coated plenipotentiaries, duck-bottomed Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week borrowed a nickel, pressed through the turnstiles into the subterranean maze. Donning a conductor's cap, he posed at the controls of a shiny new train, then settled back with proud satisfaction as it slithered off through the spotless white tunnel which even smelled clean. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Subway had been opened...