Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windows on the left hand side of the subway train crossing the Charles St. bridge the next time you're going in town and you'll see, sticking up between the Bunker Hill monument and the Navy Yard cranes, the great red truss of Boston's first big bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over the East River. Carrying...
...big bridge is Boston's first step toward the solution of the city's two foremost civic problems--the unsnarling of traffic and the improvement of port facilities. The old artery from Charlestown to Chelsea had two drawbridges on route, one of which was opened 7000 times last year for an average of ten minutes each time. That drawbridge was in such poor condition that the War Department had come very near requesting the two cities involved to build a new one at their own expense. And even with such time hazards, 11 million vehicles passed over that road last...
...average Bostonian, the bridge, like a tower or a skyscraper, will be something big that he can point out to newcomers something with dimensions a little larger than anything else the newcomer has seen...
Three first string players did not even make the trip, and one of them, wingback Hal Moffie, was Harvard's greatest offensive threat. The other two are big Chief Bender, who held a full-time job as offensive tackle and defensive guard, and Jim Kenary, number three tailback, a reliable passer, and safety man on defense...
...which leaves Barney Shotten a double winner: He returned his team to first place, and at the same time arranged matters so that Joe Hatten, Rex Barney, Ralph Branca, Preacher Roe, and Big Newcombe--his top pitchers--will be available for weekend service in the City of Brotherly Love...