Word: cowpath
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...minute hike away from the Yard in the direction of the Radcliffe Quad. (You could say that we were "Quadded" even before we got here.) Garden Street is a lovely name that hints deliciously at pastoral delights. But back in 1673, when it was nothing more than a humble cowpath, it was known by a decidedly less appealing name: Great Swamp...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of 43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the little red-brick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped would be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...
...cynical businessman was explaining why 42nd Street is difficult to clean up, much as it needs sanitizing. The analogy is apt for a cowpath that became one of the world's most famous streets. Forty-second was once the grandest lady of the theater. Florenz Ziegfeld produced his Follies at the New Amsterdam Theater. Gertrude Lawrence, Bea Lillie and Will Rogers were stars of the street, and at the Liberty Theater there was music by George Gershwin, danced to and sung by Fred Astaire. Now it is a center for pornography, perversion and prostitution...
...They went really quickly to the cowpath, but then they started dropping like flies," explained Penn's Elliot Rodgers after his team overwhelmed Harvard's cross country team. 20-41, Saturday in New York's Van Cortland Park...
...cowpath is about the one-mile point on the five-mile course, and three eager Crimson runners led a dogged group of Penn runners to the cowpath with a blistering pace. But only Tom Spengler. Harvard's captain, and the eventual winner, was able to maintain position Penn quickly moved into the second through sixth spots...