Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, vintage 1775, will interest viewers. While the gawkers will recognize Massachusetts or Hollis halls, they will be surprised to see apple orchards covering the regions of Sever and Lamont. Boylston st., which football crowds follow to the Stadium, is nothing but a stone causeway across a swamp. The land under Dunster House is a dock for boats, and a pond lies behind Billings & Stover's present location...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
...Last Straw." Ship's-Boat Leader R. Brett rowed from his ship to the beaches, found to his surprise "a causeway about eight feet wide heading out into the water." This "causeway" soon turned out to be "a perfectly ordered straight column of men about six abreast . . . When I reached them, a sergeant stepped up to me and said, 'Yes, sir. Sixty men, sir?' He then walked along the column, which remained in perfect formation, and detailed the required number...
...less outlandish and surprising than if Finn MacCool, his long-legged self, had turned around in the middle of his runnin' lep from the Giant's Causeway and said: "The Sassenach are a fine, fair-minded and glorious people...
...Japs retreated over the Johore causeway over which they had entered the supposedly impregnable fortress city. Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki told the Sultan of Johore: "We hope the peace will last 20 years. Then we will be back again...