Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Information last week lent gaiety to this campaign. For distribution throughout the land it published a series of posters designed to make talkative Britons "tongue conscious." They show a furtive, ubiquitous little Adolf Hit ler, pencil & paper in hand, listening in to British conversations everywhere: curled up under a bus seat, in a luggage rack, against a telephone booth, under a restaurant table...
Coach Peterson's Yardlings are also undefeated for their meet with Andover here at 4 o'clock. One of the feature races of the day will pit backstroker Shand of the Blue against Bill Drucker of Harvard. Captain Bus Curwen, Sandy Houston, Shaw McCutcheon, and Frank Webster should be able to pick up enough points to lead the Crimson cubs to victory...
...estate, built the city's biggest buildings, lives in begadgeted Oriental splendor atop his own Cathay Hotel. Lame, cynical, monocled Sir Victor's parties are the gayest in gay Cathay society; his business interests as wide as Shanghai's own. Besides cotton mills, building supplies, tugboats, bus lines, a brewery, a laundry, he owns or manages Shanghai's best hotels, apartments and office buildings, including Cathay Mansions where the National City Bank has just taken new space. But above all Sir Victor is a banker himself. His E. D. Sassoon Banking Co., Ltd., buys and sells...
Shaw McCutcheon and Brad Patterson, topnotch Yardling divers, together with Bus Curwen, distance man, and Bill Drucker, backstroker, ought to be the point winners for '43. The first-year men will elect a captain after the meet. From the spectator's point-of-view, the contest should be of unusual interest...
...warning on the unfortunate people. . .. The population do not sleep and spend the night dressed because the time limit allowed was recently curtailed and those not ready must leave with the clothes they wear. Individual groups are herded in the streets, covered by Gestapo guns, and wait for the bus to transport them. This wait sometimes lasts several hours...