Word: hub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other ticket agencies, Tysons and Herrick, denied they had charged higher than list price. Ernest Brown of the Hub reported last night that he procured most of his tickets through bellhops buying from Yale students...
From its vantage point at one of the myriad corners of a shrinking "hub," the CRIMSON has an excellent view of occurrences both in its own backyard and in the world at large. During the year, its editors, by taking a long view of the former and a dim view of the latter, comment on both. For the benefit of alumni and anyone else who may be interested, it presents here the high points of its year's editorial policies...
...prize is the $10 million bus terminal in Chicago, hub of Greyhound's 96.010-mile web of lines. The results of Greyhound's expansion program showed up in last year's record sales of $245 million, up 7%, and a gain in net income from $13.6 million in 1952 to $13.8 million...
...rewarding project for space men, said Oberth, is to set a gigantic mirror revolving on an orbit thousands of miles from the earth. It should be about 100 miles in diameter.* Made of shiny metal foil reinforced with wire, it would spin slowly around a space residence at its hub. Since nothing in a space orbit has any weight, a slight amount of centrifugal force would keep the mirror expanded...
...lecture-room pace, The Cobweb shows a nice ear for the spoken word and a good eye for the physical props of upper-middle-class life. Even its mixed-up characters might be fun to be with, if each did not so persistently regard his own navel as the hub of the universe...