Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were seven trains approaching, leaving or passing Signalman Bloor's junction. He had just passed through a Manchester express, a westbound freight, the doomed local. He held up a cattle train behind the local to let a fish train pass south. Said he: "The fish train was the key to the movements in my mind." Up from the south roared the fast express. Mr. Bloor got the fish train out of the way. "I was quite relieved in my mind...
...football game, just drop over to the field across Boylston street. Watch captain Fred Stork at left inside hover vulture-like around the goal. Watch Mel Grover and Del Clos, both players all through Andover and Harvard, hold up the right side of the forward line. But the key to the whole situation lies in the half-back line, manned this year by John Dorman, Frank Vincent, and Ted Roosevelt. Dorman is a determined, untiring worker. He is a feeder of the forwards, breaker-up of the opposing front line, and the most eager man to tackle trouble...
Because two-thirds of the country's rail mileage is being operated at a loss, Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman few months ago recommended a plan which, he claimed, would save the roads $100,000,000 annually. Key of the plan was that all rail merchandise services be pooled into two competing agencies of comparable traffic and financial strength, to be owned by two big groups of railroads. Mr. Eastman's plan left the railroads cold. Even less enthusiasm greeted suggestions for pooling of U. S. freight cars. To this the industry objected hotly with cries...
Unguided and yet naive the Freshman may turn quickly the page that once seemed to hold the key to unknown mysteries and find the recipes for Martinis, Alexanders, and Mint Juleps. There among the vintage of the Gods he may drown his sorrows and awake to find, perhaps, if he is resourceful, the elusive answer. And then he may know his fatal naivete led him to the solution but on a page not labeled "Sex Question...
...shores of Anvil Creek, a few miles from Cape Nome. Overnight a rip-roaring canvas-and-scantling town sprang up, sheltering, feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last week Nome was all but wiped...