Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Webster company, traveling in a bus, a truck and a station wagon, will barnstorm 87 cultural outposts-mostly colleges-on a six-month tour of 33 states and three Canadian provinces. Besides half a dozen technicians, the company consists of 21 players. The plays this season will be Hamlet and Macbeth...
...tumbled 60 teen-aged boys of all shapes and sizes. In little knots, shouting to each other, they raced through the crowd of commuters on the platform and loped down the stairway at the north end, two steps at a time. Nearly 40 of them squeezed into the first bus with the other passengers for Mamaroneck Avenue; those in back jammed open the rear door so that three more could slip in. The bus driver slid from his seat, ran back and plucked out the culprits like so many ripe peaches...
While the bus slowly jolted through White Plains, the boys sang and roughhoused like any schoolbound boys that morning all over the U.S. But when the driver stopped before a gleaming, modernistic school building, they got off and went in as quietly as though they were entering church. In a sense, they were. It was the new $4,200,000 Archbishop Stepinac High School, the nation's best equipped Roman Catholic diocesan school...
...Township bus case upheld the legality of parochial schools receiving public aid in such fields as transportation, textbooks and health services...
...summer of 1947, and Mosse (that's what people call Harold Wit '49) and I were traveling with the American Youth Hostel. We were walking along the Piazza Barberine when a little man came up to us. The Piazza was where the bus from Army headquarters stopped. Dozens of little men there always came up to Americans, in or out of uniform, saying. "Hey Joe--ya wanna change da dolla?" Other little men wanted to buy your watch, sell you their watch, buy your shirt, or sell you French francs at a bargain for American money . . . and what about these...