paternoster
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Such so-called paternoster elevators still survive in some German public buildings.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2023
Out out, one in There are an estimated 250 paternoster lifts still in use in Germany.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
The loop: from the top The paternoster has been dubbed the ‘socialist among elevators’.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
Nowadays, the very paternoster that inspired Heinrich Böll’s story is the setting for a popular weekly radio celebrity interview by West German Radio called the WDR2 Paternoster.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
The curfew sounded, and the boys, with their heads uncovered, mumbled a paternoster: the girls did the same; and then all crossed themselves.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
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