Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood still. Elsewhere, in widely varying degrees of regularity, bus schedules were maintained, though there was a sharp drop in traffic. Busses still rolling entered the terminals well splashed with ripe tomatoes. Tires were slashed, windows stoned. In Washington, eleven pickets were arrested for forcing a bus to the curb and beating the driver. Five men were arrested in Springfield, Ill. for the same tactics, while four others were picked up for investigation as alleged "strongarm guards" employed by the company...
From the corner curb to the stairway via Rout 1, the student takes 17 full seconds. But, employing the illegal Routue 2, he does it in 10 flat. Seven seconds, then, are wasted because of the grass plot, an architectural Frankenstein! And even if the illicit route is taken, a hedge and a tree block speedy entrance to class...
...fair, impartial distribution of said pasteboards. On the opposite are of this vicious circle is the public. They too are suffering, and will continue to suffer for the rest of the week unless some deadly antidote is quickly compounded by the University to curb this crawling menace. For the public will pay the scalpers the original price of the ticket, plus the several hundred percent it cost the scalpers to obtain it, plus several hundred additional percent for the sole purpose of breeding these scalpers more profusely in the future...
...famous line as its slogan. Last week Dave Smart made a little room for the public in the infinite riches of his publishing ventures. Having already sold 75,000 shares of stock publicly, he listed all 500,000 shares of Esquire-Coronet Inc. on the New York Curb Exchange...
Judged by the progressive destruction of a Lincoln Zephyr which, rammed head on into the curb, burns throughout Forman's, Wong's and Krainukov's films, Wong was the first man on the scene. (Presumably Forman lost time by having to rush upstairs from the Cathay bar to get his machine.) But, according to the best guesses of U. S. newsreel people, Wong must have been turned back by the police after making his first shots, for it is Krainukov whose camera turns in the most gruesomely inclusive report of the bombing...