Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power-laden Crimson Varsity which will face its rivals tomorrow: Stroked by Bus Curwen, who has yet to lose a race and packed from bow to stern with veteran oarsmen, if should leave grey water between them and their nearest opponent...
...Three Negroes on a bus leaped to their feet when a white officer boarded it. Said the girl conductor, tartly: "Sit down. This is my bus and this is England...
...gasoline. Though approximately 70% of all shipping from the U.S. to South America's east coast is carrying coal as cargo, Brazil gets only a fraction of her needs. Tankers seldom visit her ports. No private automobiles ride the once busy streets of Rio and Sao Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon River to Manaos are stopped: the woodcutters have slipped into the jungles to gather rubber for better pay. In Andean-wrinkled Chile and Peru where railroads...
...twelve of the toughest outfits in the Midwest, he moaned: "They have less coordination than a third team at Minnesota." But gloomy Bernie soon discovered that his trainees, though variously tutored, had high possibilities. Besides Michigan's Forest Evashevski, Ohio State's Dick Fisher, Iowa's "Bus" Mertes and Northwestern's George Benson, he was blessed with a triple threat named Bill Schatzer, who had hid his brilliance for four years under a bushel named North Central College in Illinois. In the Seahawks' first two games-against Kansas and Northwestern -Fledgling Schatzer made one-third...
...girls, who used to hire a bus to come to PBH teas here, about-faced this year, and the Navy obliged by recruiting plenty of men. But when this young ladies from Wellesley heard that the first to apply had been signed on, they were unhappy. "Look here," said the Navy, and that...