1.   The fire had been started in a pile of books and spread through the assembly hall and classrooms.

2.   And for the finale, he makes big speeches to the faculty about health care while adoring fellow students watch from every seat of a jampacked assembly hall.

3.   But hints of potential political division lingered in the cavernous, Soviet-style assembly hall in the Interior Ministry where the ceremony was held.

4.   Cots are set up in the church assembly halls for volunteers, and other out-of-towners are staying with residents.

5.   Even among the well-dressed unemployed men and women who filled the basement assembly hall of a suburban church on a recent Monday morning, the mood was remarkably sanguine.

6.   He sprinkled a batch of it on the floor in a student assembly hall.

7.   Just inside the doors, police officers in dress blues and white gloves ushered hundreds of guests into the assembly hall.

8.   Leaving the assembly hall for his opulent quarters at a Manhattan luxury hotel, Clinton careened through a day of intensive face-to-face diplomacy.

9.   One thing to go to an assembly hall and watch big illusions, another thing to take them home in a little can.