1.   Across the river at MIT, all the dorms once had dining halls -- sociable islands on a campus with legendary academic pressures.

2.   But one can sacrifice a little privacy when a neat hall can be had for free.

3.   It has three halls that can house everything from touring Broadway musicals to the productions of the Cincinnati Ballet to small-scale experiments.

4.   Temples also have halls where the pictures of ancestors are placed.

5.   Though the Poster Museum has two halls, the entries are squeezed together with barely an inch between the frames.

6.   You cannot have a hall where the visual aesthetics are a higher priority than the acoustics.

7.   Buddhist temples usually have several halls where devotees sit on the floor and meditate before Buddha images.