Word: underground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both Saints, Peter and Paul, died in Rome and were buried near the Basilica of San Sebastiano, sometimes called "Basilica Apostolorum", on the Appian Way. The diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek for "down in the hollow...
...letter on the varnished table. He read it and went into his room and shut the door. Pretty soon there was a new smell in the flat, the smell of gas, and then, a long while later, another smell still, fetid and dark, a breath from underground. The girl did not come back. Nobody came-for ten days...
Several causes are given for Lampy's demise. It was not generally known that the cozy little home of the publication was not only built on sand, but was built on a flimsy bridge over the same underground river which is causing so much trouble to the builders of McKinlock Hall. Since every year the spring freshets add to the instability of the edifice, the editors have not felt it worth while to pay off the huge mortgage on the building. This mortgage was foreclosed yesterday afternoon...
...they whirled home through the underground, the purchasers of this rare pennyworth perused a little story, in the now familiar vein, which described the adventures of a boy with the kings, queens and knaves of a pack of cards. In the end all the royal cards are burnt, and this denouement seemed commonplace enough to most of the stolid Londoners. Here and there, however, there was one who remembered that...
...these are minor enterprises compared with the proposed subway, which will cost 160 millions and be the largest system of its type in Europe. About 50,000 men will be employed for three years in its construction. To build and operate this freight subway, the "London Underground Goods Railways" has already been organized by Britons and Americans; required capital will be raised in London and New York...