Word: macadamization
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Along the edge of the Lake of Lucerne, from Lucerne to Kussnacht, runs a new macadam road two lanes wide, edged with an eight-inch coping of concrete. Every 50 feet there is a twelve-inch aperture for drainage. Every 100 feet there...
...road is on a foundation of reinforced concrete which is being hauled to the premises ready mixed and then spread in truck loads. After the concrete is poured it is believed that the final surfacing will be one of a tar macadam nature, similar to the other streets of Cambridge...
Police who swarmed over Northfield's campus last week had no trouble reconstructing the murder-someone lurked on a macadam path outside the study until Headmaster Speer stood up, then fired a shotgun pointblank through the window. But of weapon, killer or motive they could find no trace...
...want to win the Boston A. A. Marathon-26 mi. over macadam and concrete roads from Hopkinton to a finish-line on Exeter Street-a good way is to finish eighth the year before. Jimmy Henigan was eighth in 1930, winner the next year; Paul De Bruyn was eighth in 1931, winner a year ago. In eighth place last year was a short, prudent Pawtucket, R. I. mill worker named Leslie Samuel Pawson who trains for marathons not by drinking beer like many of his confreres but by total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, long runs around Pawtucket when...
Today a line of motor lorries stretches itself out over macadam highways. The occupants are clad warmly from head to foot, and some of the women wear fur coats. They can joke and sing because they have just had coffee and doughnuts provided them at the last town, and someone will look after them tonight. The procession of trucks, for which $100 each has been paid, is flanked by motorcycle troopers who will escort them to the next city, and there they will be feted and photographed. They call themselves the "Hunger Marchers...