Automatic operation, widely popular in hospitals and apartment buildings because of its economy, was improved by the introduction of collective operation, by which an elevator or group of elevators answered calls in sequence from top to bottom or vice versa.
I tried the Parker Meridien, on West Fifty-seventh, following a group of tourists into an elevator.
When I explain this to people, they ask me, "Well, if you're such an introvert, why are you talking to a group of strangers in an elevator?
DEVIL A group of people trapped in an elevator discover that one of their number is Satan himself.
Roldan was taken from the receiving room in a group of 12 and led to the elevator.
Only years later does she learn that there was once a fire in the building and a group of people got stuck in the elevator and died there.
He and a group of other Morgan Stanley employees rode an elevator back up to the 60th floor and returned to their desks.
In a conversation, a white woman talked about hesitating before getting on an elevator with a group of young black men, not because they were black, she said, but because she would have been the only woman.
I joined a group of tourists taking the wrought-iron elevator up to room 511, the "Hemingway room".
I already felt sheepish and clumsy in my wounded state, which was exacerbated when a group of people mocked me in the elevator, assuming I didn't understand the language they were speaking.
As passengers evacuate, Drew, a young deaf girl, becomes trapped in an elevator, and a group of people become trapped behind locked fire doors in a hallway filling up with smoke.
