Word: kiosk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Russians go to their mailbox or wait patiently in the midmorning kiosk queue for a copy of Pravda or Izvestia. Readers write the papers thousands of letters every week, usually complaining against some service or some minor bureaucrat. They have a private joke which has become a national truism: "In Pravda there is no information, in Izvestia there is no truth." At day's end, by long tradition, the reader hands his paper over to the neighbor on bathroom duty in the cooperative apartment house. Then, by almost unanimous agreement, Pravda and Izvestia come into their own: torn...
...which a row of suspended colored lanterns contributed much. Steps led down to the other part, which served as the garden. Beyond this, in the space usually belonging to the entranceway, he removed a portion of the wall and built another platformed area to function as a garden kiosk...
...final two College years of '31 will be covered tomorrow.)The subway kiosk in Harvard Square has always been an eyesore. But the Cambridge administration did try to do something about it while '31 was in college, erecting what was considered a modern structure--for the time...
...group's statistics calculated according to average clockings, show that it takes 33 seconds from the entrance of the kiosk, to buy a token and get on a train...
After 58 seconds the train leaves the station to arrive at Central almost two minutes later. The train stops at Kendall 5 minutes and 11 seconds after the passenger enters the kiosk. From Kendall it takes only 1:44 to get to Charles Street Station, and then only 1:16 to Park Street. After leaving the car it takes the average city-dweller 40 seconds to climb to the street...