Word: subterranean
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Subterranean routes would require no right-of-way at all. However, with present tunneling techniques, Selfert feels that the cost of building an underground roadbed would be greater than the cost of acquiring the necessary right...
...first chance to inspect her unusual talent. In silverpoint on oil-and-canvas, she draws tiny signs and symbols around the edges of lonely landscapes that are guarded by a pale sun and filled with little animals, intertwining snakes, and under the earth's surface, a strange, subterranean life...
...call from the boss-and there was a lot of buzzing. The contraptions were supposed to work only above ground and within a five-mile radius of the Pageant switchboard. But they were underrated: one White House staffer was in a basement barroom, enjoying a supposedly safe, subterranean snort, when his pocket buzzer suddenly went wild. Texas' Governor John Connally was a good 15 miles out of town when the same thing happened...
...possibility of a modern hoax), the cave is rated as a major archaeological find. Many art historians believe that cave art had magical meaning, purposely put in as cramped a space as possible in a sort of protective return to the womb. Though in an area famous for its subterranean paintings, its very magic may keep the new underground art gallery from ever becoming a tourist attraction. Only the hardiest visitors could crawl down to see the treasures 320 ft. below the surface of the Lot Valley...
...before us. A downward slope took us back underground, and then we started the long walk under the river bank and expressway toward the Business School. An uneventful five minute walk brought us to the McCulloch Hall operating station, from which, after exchanging farewells with Dominic, we left subterranean Harvard and returned to the Harvard of everyday experience...