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...railroads had all been castigated as menaces to the community. As late as 1941, trains were not allowed to move along the New York Central freight tracks on Manhattan's West Side unless they were preceded by a horseman who carried a flag by day and a red lantern by night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Peril from the Air | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...Real Dinger. Back in the main lobby, Truman said he had frightened the builders (John McShain Inc. of Philadelphia) into putting up a new chandelier. The old one looked like a livery-stable lantern, and he threatened to knock it down with a baseball bat if they put it up again. The state dining room is also getting a new chandelier, he said-a real dinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Guided Tour | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Nothing but Animals. First prize went to Minna Harkavy's Two Men, a dead-serious head & shoulders study of two long-nosed, lantern-jawed characters, facing each other in solemn agreement. Miss Harkavy, 56, spent more than a year chipping, brushing and sandpapering the scabrous surface of her cast stone sculpture, explained that it represented "communion, maybe between two citizens of widely separated lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sculptors' Turn | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...regulation was protested as an infringement of academic freedom by the Ohio State Lantern, the student newspaper, and the Faculty Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU to Sponsor Pacifist Speaker | 11/23/1951 | See Source »

...regulation also had been protested as an infringement of academic freedom by the Ohio State Lantern, the University's student newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ohio State Trustees Uphold New Gag Rule | 10/17/1951 | See Source »

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