Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water, gas or oil for 135 miles, how much of a handicap would have been ours in one of the 1935 model automobiles, whose low-slung bodies, according to one advertisement, "make entrance and exit very easy because the running board is brought in close proximity to the curb...
...street level. Sculptor Lachaise was too nervous to watch but telephoned every ten minutes for a report on progress. Standing on the sidewalk before the museum he screamed with dismay when three fire engines bore down on truck and Mountain just as they were backing in to the curb. There was no collision...
Even more athletic than big, brawny President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange is tanned, wiry President E. Burd Grubb of the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. He was Delaware River champion swimmer, amateur welterweight boxing champion of Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats...
Last week the most popular president the Curb Exchange has had in years let it be known that when his term expires next month he will quit the Curb, transfer his activities to the Big Board. Broker Grubb expects to become a partner in Coggeshall & Hicks as soon as the New York Exchange approves the transfer of a seat...
Although Harvard had procured a license to operate an outdoor parking space at standard rates, it had not obtained permission to level the sidewalk and to drive cars into the let. With resistance against destroying the curb adamant, the entire project appeared on the point of collapsing until on Tuesday the Cambridge City Council voted a permit to let the University go to work on the curbstone...