Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Driver Arthur James overturned on a Wisconsin highway, next car to happen along was that of an urbane, immaculately dressed man who helped right the overturned car, extricate Mrs. James. Then Dr. Glenn Frank, onetime president of the University of Wisconsin, longtime Republican bigwig, drove on to the town where he was to speak in his campaign for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator...
...cover the escape of two German prisoners from a nearby concentration camp. Phillips stayed five days, saw the prisoners safely rounded up, wrote his story, headed back toward Toronto. Nearing home he met a fair-haired man in grey trousers and blue coat, walking toward him along the highway...
There lie London's water-supply system, centred at Staines, and several trunk rail lines which, in the absence of an adequate motor-highway system, must feed and supply 8,600,000 people if the Thames jugular is constricted...
...first shot in the battle when it attacked President Conant (who had urged lifting the arms embargo), Bishop Manning of New York, and President Seymour of Yale, accusing them of "earning an unenviable place in the road gang that is trying to build for the United States a super-highway to Armageddon...
...BATH-Cecil Roberts-Macmillian ($3). A sentimental journey along the London-Bath express highway by Briton Cecil Roberts, indefatigable World War I correspondent, novelist, lecturer, editor. A pleasant, journalistic exhumation of such folk as John Milton, Highwayman Dick Turpin, Henry VIII, Novelist Samuel Richardson, Pocahontas, the Duchess of Kingston, who two centuries ago attended a ball wearing only a pair of shoes, a sprig...