Word: litted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taxi industry in Manhattan has its own trade paper, the Taxi Weekly. At almost any corner you may occasionally see drivers who are not "cruising, cruising," and have been lucky enough to find parking space, poring over the news of their profession. Last week, for example, idle* eyes lit up at the screamer headline "HIGHER CAB RATE PLANNED...
...Glen Higley, miner, rode the tram bucket. The cable thrummed; the slowly traveling bucket creaked and groaned as it swayed 200 feet above ground. Miner Higley felt frolicsome, peered over the edge. A bellows-gust of wind struck the swaying bucket neatly and pitched him out. Because he lit in a snow drift he will live...
Others, at night, lit torches from their fires, set ablaze piles of sugar cane over wide-stretching fields. All about the district, thousands of tons of cut cane lay spoiling. The Governor General pondered, considered the arrest of strike-leaders, sought for new ways to end the strike...
Automobiles had become a troublesome problem in Princeton, as elsewhere. Five undergraduate deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss...
...Tues. at 12 Harvard 6 18b Tues. at 12 Harvard 3 22b Tues. at 9 Harvard 3 GREEK A Mon. at 12 Sever 18 B Mon. at 10 Sever 25 2 Tues. at 10 Sever 30 HISTORY C Consult Professor Miller-Hist. Consult Professor Whitney-Hist. and Lit. 1a Tues. at 11 Sever 5 5b Tues. at 2 Andover B 6 Mon. at 11 Emerson H 10a Mon. at 11 Harvard 1 10b Mon. at 10 Harvard 2 13 Tues. at 10 Sem. Mus. 2 15 Tues. at 11 Sever 36 16 Tues. at 9 Harvard...