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But we pulled at the grill [on the ground] and it gave way. and then we saw iron rings as steps leading down a shaft into a darkness without bottom. … it was a great tunnel. its walls were hard and smooth to the touch; it felt like stone, but it was not stone. on the ground there were long thin tracks of iron, but it was not iron; it felt smooth and cold as glass. we knelt, and we crawled forward, our hand groping along the iron line to see where it would lead. but there was an unbroken night ahead. what is the most likely explanation for the walls described in the bold text?

The purpose of antitrust law is to support efforts of companies to take over others discourage competition in certain markets force similar companies to combine into one protect competition by preventing monopolies

Choose the correct latin translation for the capitalized word. the very long speech was boring. longissimus longius longissime longior choose the correct latin translation for the capitalized word. he was highly respected. altus alte altius altissime that man with his "city-slicker" ways swept that country girl right off her feet! ocular communal aestival urbane