Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lick, Tenn. is not a county, or a city, or a town. It is just a place. Greyhound bus drivers in Crossville, 14 miles away, have never heard of it. The 50-odd families in Big Lick carved their little farms out of the rolling, wooded country of the Cumberland Plateau. Timber used to be their cash crop. When the timber market went bad, there was nothing left but hard scrabble farming...
...special service to the men with Wellesley dates, Smith added that a bus has been chartered to return the girls to Wellesley on Saturday night, leaving Harvard Square at 12:15 o'clock. It will return "after allowing girls ample time for adieux." The charge is $1.00 per couple...
...clarify the misconceptions evidenced in the article and in the statement of Mr. Rose, we enclose two pictures. One is of an actual Wellesley girl waiting for a bus to Chelsea (note the Phi Beta Kappa key over the right ear). The other is merely a typical product of our cooperative house at Radcliffe. The wonderful part about this Radcliffe "doll" is that she combines not only the legs of Mrs. Billy Rose and the brain of Miss Wellesley '46 but also she wraps it up very neatly in a 5 ft. 8 in., auburned-haired, 128 lb. package...
Omnibuster. In London, Ernest Meadow leaped into the driver's seat of an idling bus, caromed off through traffic, ignoring passengers' protests", later explained: he was in a hurry to get to Victoria Station...
...yielded to the call of spring. Last week they ran in pairs through the crowded streets. The harassed Passenger Transport Board had a new problem: sex. Tender feelings had blossomed between male drivers and their trousered woman ticket takers, who are known as "clippies." Chivalrous drivers, closely following another bus, cut their own passenger loads, thus greatly reducing their clippies' chores. The consequent disruption of schedules and the savage reaction of stranded customers encouraged the P.T.B. to step up the replacement of clippies by male conductors. Romance in a bus, the P.T.B. felt, should be a prerogative of passengers...