Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whether Mr. Quill has it in back of his head to give it a tryout here - whether this bus strike is a sort of rehearsal for a general bus, subway, El and taxi strike to come - we don't know...
...meet get together for the squad picture at 4:30 o'clock in the Dillon Field House. The only Juniors eligible are Dick Harris and Tom Shrewsbury, both of whom are minor letter winners. A Sophomore might conceivably be elected from a trio of major letter winners. Bill Drucker, Bus Curwen, and Shaw McCutcheon...
...Hampden on Plympton Street. It took him fifteen minutes to reach the Waldorf, what with the day's greetings to give and receive. Each morning he presented the Waldorf counter-girl with an apple, for which bribe he had his soft-boiled eggs brought to his table by a bus-boy. After breakfast he sat there, donned pince-nez, and scoured the Herald, pausing now and then to extract a paragraph with his pen-knife. About 9:15 he went for a walk, an eternal walk, up and down, around, through the Yard, constantly smoking but never inhaling, smiling, chatting...
...safe, sound, thoroughly American bedrock of Florida's winter trade was bigger and sounder than ever. A bus-line authority said that trying to count the passengers was like counting the snowflakes that fell in Manhattan last week. The middleaged, the old, the thrifty young thronged ancient, calm St. Augustine, Fort Lauderdale, Delray Beach on the Atlantic Coast. St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Mexico did its usual huge and placid business. The thousands of green benches along the city's sidewalks and in the parks were always crowded. Gaffers 75 and over played their daily six innings...
...mythical second, with one first, three seconds, a third, and a fourth. Captain Fran Powers accounted for the first with his victory the 220, while Hill Dracker and Bob White accounted for the seconds in the backstroke and 300 yard medley, respectively. Powers' time was 2:13:8. Bus Curwen took a fourth in the 440 in 5:05, and the 440 relay team placed third behind Yale and Princeton. Shaw McCutcheon qualified for the dive finals, but had to scratch because of his dislocated shoulder...