Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days, or weeks in a convict prison, involving a considerable amount of hardship, to receive, at the end of the period, a certain pecuniary' reward. In the past education could be compared to effort of this sort, but its modern version is more like a ride in a Pullman car, with only the fare to pay and a tip for the porter at the end of the journey. Of course, paying the fare is sometimes an inconvenience, but most things have to be paid for, even the unreturned shirts in last week's laundry. Education still requires a certain amount...
...more difficult to comprehend than a comparatively small number like 660,000,000,000,000,000 miles, the distance to the Magellanic Cloud at present. It would take 1,130,000,000,000 years of constant walking to cover the distance, or--in more familiar terms,--a Dudley Street car might make it in 1,134,000,000,000 years. But most astronomers consider the idea impractical, as the Magellanic Cloud is moving away from us 150 miles every second. By the time the Dudley Street car reached the Cloud's present location, the galaxy would be 556 quintillion miles...
...University Engineering Association will hold a dinner tonight at 7.00 o'clock at the Hotel . Howard E. Coffin, vice-president of the Motor Car Company, will speak on "Our American Air Policies and National Defense...
...properly circulated and distributed the population. There was no serious congestion because any new population could easily spread out. But afterwards--when the three or four mile limit was passed, the essential thing was not done. That is, the town authorities, the community representatives, did not cause the street car system to ramify over the old and the new town--over the entire town--in the same manner that the street system alone had formerly done. Instead, the matter was left to private interests. City transit was left to be exploited as a business proposition. Profit from the transit service...
...travel six or eight miles an hour. Of course, as many as could, moved near the routes. They were attracted, just as a magnet attracts. Just as the iron filings flow to the magnetic lines, so the people swarmed along the new line of travel--along the first horse-car line. What was the result? Congestion of course: Rush hour congestion; then housing congestion; Why say more? What happened next? Why other lines were constructed of course. Did their owners seek another part of the city for a route and endeavor to develop more of the city? Why should they...