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Word: davision (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although engineer Davis is convinced that rotary traffic holds the only practical solution to eventually speeding up traffic through Harvard Square, he has yet to convince most of Cambridge and the student body.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

As the man directly responsible for many of the changes, city engineer Edgar W. Davis has shown considerable intelligence in ordering numerous changes. Although he has climbed out on the proverbial limb in terming the experiment a success, he definitely has not blinded himself to other improvements. Merely as a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

As far as the complaints of Cambridge cabbies are concerned, Davis is wont to turn a deaf car. For something like 40 years, he explains, the hackies have dominated the Square. With rotary traffic, the days of reckless U-turns are gone for the cab drivers; they must obey the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

At Tokyo's Christian Meiji Gakuin College, a young student who couldn't remember the name Garry Davis, formally asked the government for permission to become a world citizen and "work for eternal peace on an international plane like that fellow in France."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Peace, It's Wonderful | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Born. To William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 31, fourth-ranking U.S. National Amateur tennis player and Davis Cupper, and second wife Nancy Pike Talbert, 26: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Pike. Weight, 7 Ibs. 3 oz.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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