Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look out of the windows on the left hand side of the subway train crossing the Charles St. bridge the next time you're going in town and you'll see, sticking up between the Bunker Hill monument and the Navy Yard cranes, the great red truss of Boston's first big bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over...
...unreasonable burden on an already belabored people. The course of future British policy, in the long run, will be determined not in Parliament but in the coal mines, the factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately on the people at large. It would be foolish to attempt to predict the outcome of the present political skirmish on the basis of devaluation, its results, and the debate. If the Conservatives return...
...great problems in the Square now, under the rotary traffic experiment, stems from the fact that pedestrians don't believe in crossing only at the designated crosswalks. This obviously leads to trouble in such a busy intersection as Harvard Square, where well over 70,000 persons transfer daily...
...pressures of population in the Far East are an important reason for the misery of the people and their discontent, Thomas said, and the problem of population control in these countries is a crucial one. The East's present great desire for mechanization will not succeed in raising standards of living unless the resulting population increase is curbed, he stated...
...coaching staff's initial combination was adequate enough. It defeated Amherst by three touchdowns in Columbia's opener at Baker Field last Saturday. However, the brave Lord Jeff eleven hardly tested the Lions' gridiron savvy. It didn't put up much of a defense and it was no great shakes on offense...