Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these times of great national and international flux and stress, two or more persons cannot meet for 30 seconds on bus or corner without a heated debate ensuing on "the Third Term" or "the Battle of the Bulge...
...concert tours have enabled the 35 members of the troupe to throw up jobs as house painters, waiters, butlers and cooks, vacate their berths on WPA. To date the choristers have given 61 concerts at up to $1,500 an appearance, traveling in their own $19,000 bus, from which they once serenaded an astonished chain gang in Georgia. Last week Messrs. Settle & Kramer announced what they were going to do with their net at the end of this season and henceforth. They will provide 20 college scholarships for colored youngsters all over the U. S., to be competed...
...Advertised by railroads this year, as last, was a special round-trip fare of $90, from any point in the U. S. to both fairs and home again. The same round trip by bus...
...Changsha group had as their destination Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, in southwestern China. Some went by bus, some by junk and river steamer, some by rail, most on foot, in squads led by their professors. In Nanking, 1,086 students of National Central University, four times bombed, loaded boats with their books, laboratory equipment and machines from their shops, set out up the Yangtze. They arrived at Chungking, 1,000 miles away, after 43 days. (Their agricultural school's herd of blooded cattle, driven along the river banks, got there a year later.) More spectacular still...
...used in book titles, adventure is one of the world's most elastic words. It is as likely to title a book about a bus trip or stamp collecting as about Tibet. Books have even been written about adventures in thinking. But among any season's adventure books, year in & out, the majority tell about Africa and Asia. No exception, last month's crop was somewhat better than average...