Word: kiosks
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...wizened Upperclassman wearily emerged from the subway kiosk in the Square, and stepped unexpectedly into the waiting arms of a '49er. He paused, and the hours-old Freshman promptly took his bag and offered to show him the "campus." "It's easy, once you get the hang of it," he said, with a knowing...
...ancient city of Abydos, the great Temple of Seti I, finished in the reign of Rameses II (1324-1258 B.C.), is settling into the soft subsoil while cracks in its walls grow dangerously wider. On the Island of Philae, close to the Aswan dam and artificial lake, the Kiosk of Trajan (1st Century B.C.), in recent years so submerged that often only its upper half could be seen, has collapsed completely. On the same island, the Temple of Isis is in such danger that Egyptians have planned to move it to a safer spot...
Painter Rattner's prizewinner was Kiosk, a near-abstraction in greens, yellows and a touch of purple. A Philadelphia reporter, struggling to find the metropolitan newsdealer peering from his booth window, framed by magazines and newspapers, called Kiosk a "what-is-it." Sniffed the New York Times's assured Edward Alden Jewell: "unqualifiedly the poorest thing by Abraham Rattner that I have ever seen...
Proposed for discussion at the meeting, next Tuesday is the suggestion, that passengers continue to use the kiosk for entrance to the subway, but that bus lines stop at some other location in the Square. A general re-routing of various traffic in and around the square will also come up for discussion...
...buses which will travel through the square without turning around the kiosk and which will unload and load at sidewalk platforms instead of at the center "pillbox" apron, are the Belmont, Arlington, Kendall Square, and Allston Square lines. New no parking sones in the square may be introduced as part of the project to relieve congested traffic conditions...