Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Along the trail of trouble that followed San Francisco's non-union "hot car" of Woolworth school supplies (TIME, Aug. 29), owners of 121 closed warehouses and 35 open but strike-crippled department stores still held out for concessions in new labor contracts, fighting C. I. O. warehousemen and A. F. of L. clerks to a standstill. But San Franciscans were cheered last week by more significant news: Harry Bridges' C. I. O. longshoremen and Pacific Coast shipping line operators at last agreed, subject to rank-and-file approval, to sign contracts promising peace on the water front...
Everywhere along the drives and through the Gardens, the havoc wreaked by Wednesday's hurricane is in evidence. Directly behind the Administration building at the entrance, the fine pine grove has been largely destroyed, and damage is also severe on the exposed part of Hemlock hill, in the conifer collection and among the populars and oaks in the Peters Hill area...
...from New York, where it had arrived home from Europe with daily workouts in the ship's swimming pool between men's and women's hours. As the car was heaving in sight of Memorial Hall, it suddenly pitched into the ditch, leaving the shell to continue along the road for some ten or fifteen feet. At that it only suffered from minor scratches and bruises, but fate had yet more in store...
Eliot House, Winthrop House, and the Yard were the worst hit as far as loss of trees goes. Nine of the stately elms outside of Eliot House along Memorial Drive were prostrated, leaving a comparatively bare building. Over half of the poplars in the front circle were blown done. A scene of wreckage was the court between Gore and Standish Halls of Winthrop House, where all but three of the old willows went down. Fifteen trees in the Yard were uprooted or snapped off near the roots...
...supper, and their painful struggle to keep up some outward respectability in a world where they cannot pay their bills or get credit. And although the characters fight, insult each other, get drunk, beat the children, curse the Jews and the neighbors, they also make desperate efforts to get along better, to be patient and keep sober, so that their explosions seem pathetic rather than vicious...