Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whether Mr. Quill has it in back of his head to give it a tryout here - whether this bus strike is a sort of rehearsal for a general bus, subway, El and taxi strike to come - we don't know...
...create another awkward rendezvous. The climax to this engineer's nightmare is the subway entrance brooding in the middle. With these non-Euclidean facilities, the Square tries to serve two purposes--a shopping center for students and a transfer station for in-town travellers. Twelve thousand outsiders shift El cars every day. Six hundred busses carry thirty thousand passengers in, out, and through the dilemma. A paltry nine thousand scholars wander and mill about for eight hours a day. Then there's the pleasure traffic, trolleys, trucks and taxis. Thus the problem centers around two cureable factors--the great number...
...entrance, but the present little-used stairways could be easily converted and enlarged. The one by Lehman Hall would be the regular exit, and the entrance would be through the other by Hayes-Bickford. Accompanying this revolution the busses would all be diverted to Eliot Square adjacent to the El repair yards. Here on the remaining piece of city-owned property the new transfer station is set-up. Harvard Square is at last emancipated from six hundred clumsy monsters a day, not to mention the multitude of the twelve thousand...
...Mexico City last week, the peculiarly Spanish democracy of the bull ring manifested itself and caused a small, black bull, like Ferdinand, to be sent to spend the rest of its life among the flowers and the cows, and Lorenzo Garza, El Magnifico, to be fined 1,000 pesos for making obscene gestures to the sovereign aficionados of Mexico...
Tired. In El Paso, Tex., a girl explained why her car crashed: "Everybody was arguing, and I was tired of it, so I just drove into the gate to stop them...