Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles from them (see cut). The Army had already begun shifting from rubber tank treads to steel treads, which are not as good, but replaceable. Drastic steps were necessary, and would certainly be invoked-such as commandeering tire stockpiles, the requisition of civilian cars, a further abandonment of duplicating bus lines...
...will fill a gap in the midEastern Seaboard's horse-racing circuit. Well aware that racegoers have spent record-breaking millions at Maryland and New York tracks this spring, ingenious Mr. Mori figures that his park should attract plenty of Philadelphians this summer. It is 10? by bus, 12 minutes by auto (even at 30 m.p.h.) and only 200 yards from a main-line Pennsy depot. But Mr. Mori may not have figured on all the uncertainties of wartime living...
...Should bus and railroad space be rationed like gasoline, he may wish that he had not been so ingenious...
That leaves only newly-elected Captain Bus Curwen, Johnny Richardson, and Scho Andrews on whom Bolles may count, and that means that next year Tom will have to build from the very bottom...
Curwen's athletic prowess is well known, and he is probably the best athlete in the Class of '43. In his Freshman year he captained both the swimming team and the crew, but, unlike his brother before him who gave up crew for swimming, Bus turned his attention to crew, keeping swimming as a purely secondary attraction...