21.  A community gathering place, once again, instead of merely a community landmark.

22.  A crucial emphasis will be on the culinary, as befits an area whose historical and continuing focus has been as a gathering place of commerce for farmers.

23.  A few blocks away from the Pentagon, the Marriott Residence Inn served Tuesday afternoon as a gathering place for the injured, the curious and the scared.

24.  A few blocks away from the Pentagon, the Marriott Residence Inn served as a gathering place for the injured, the curious and the scared.

25.  A fireplace becomes a gathering place.

26.  A native of Reseda, Stewart also grew up in a large family, where the dinner table was a family gathering place.

27.  Afrinet, on the World Wide Web, is an electronic gathering place for information and also lists other black-oriented sites.

28.  After all, the main purpose of this new addition is to be a gathering place.

29.  But at the Cedarland Restaurant, a popular Lebanese-American gathering place a few blocks away, opinions of the attack were more favorable.

30.  But for two days last week, the quiet theater was a gathering place for two dozen police chiefs and police union presidents.