Word: detours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means to those living in Leverett, or Adams, or Dunster, or Lowell, or indeed in any of the buildings which happens to be located in the wrong place, has never been considered. Now that the library is open in the evenings to habitants of those houses must take a detour of about six blocks to reach the welcoming doors of Widener. This obstacle seemingly miner, but in times of haste, or low temperatures, sufficiently annoying remains in the path to knowledge in order that the Yard may be protected from marauders and that Freshmen in Wigglesworth Halls may sleep undisturbed...
Students driving down Peabody Street into Harvard Square will be compelled to make a detour around the street car incline, if a plan recently submitted to Mayor Russell is approved by the City Council. The proposed plan, which was drawn up by the Governor's committee on street and highway safety, calls for the installation of a rotary traffic system around the incline so that all traffic will proceed to the right. If the recommendations are carried out the number of accidents in the Square is expected to be greatly decreased...
...scrunched along a soggy road, bearing 35 Mormon Church members back to their homes. Led by their Bishop Morris R. Perry, they had made a four-day pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at Mesa. Suddenly with a wrenching screech of jammed brakes the bus crashed through a detour sign which the driver had seen too late. Slithering off the road the bus turned over. When help arrived five Mormon women and a girl-baby were dead, all but two of the rest were injured. Said Bishop Perry: "There were only four of us able to do anything for the others...
...hotel, prevented anyone from entering or leaving. They trained two field guns on the entrances of the building, set up sentry posts and cots in the lee of the nearby Ford plant. Thus checkmated, matters rested. Cubans used to living on volcanos' edges made a 16-block detour and went on about their business...
...noon-time and the Freshmen were returning from lunch. Twenty-five out of 28 Freshmen carefully made a detour around that ladder. Then came two proctors. They, too, walked across the grass to avoid the evil omen. "Superstitious people," the reporter remarked, as he detoured around the ladder...