Today, cars loaded with trash entered the site in an orderly file, dumped their trash and left without interference.
No landmark Lancaster saw, in person or on paper, disappeared from the jam-packed yet orderly files of his near-photographic memory; besides, he had a talent for a kind of architectural déjà vu.
At certain popular stores, like Silas & Maria, a British skatewear brand, would-be shoppers are required to wait in orderly file in the street, as if they were on a bread line, before being permitted, twenty or so at a time, to rush in and scour the sparsely stocked shelves for any new merchandise.
They walked at the head of a long and orderly file, scrupulously keeping to the steep and narrow sidewalk.
Nurses gather at their station writing down their patients' information in orderly files, and a small handful of visitors wait patiently in the corridors.
After nearly an hour, the volunteers were corralled behind a velvet rope as an organizer stood on a chair and regaled them through a headset microphone: "Proceed to the desks in an orderly fashion, filing in first at the back.
The men retreated in orderly single file towards a house behind the frontline where other fighters had gathered.
"So we asked them to change it to this," he said, pointing to an orderly single-file queue.
With surprising discipline, they took turns approaching the feeder in an orderly single file, snatching the treats and quickly swooping away, their white bellies nearly grazing our heads as they scurried off.
Such was the case when Stanford researchers, studying a tiny device that has become increasingly important in disease diagnostics and drug discovery, observed the surprising way it funneled thousands of water droplets into an orderly single file, squeezing them drop by drop, out the tip of the device.
