Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...changes. The Cambridge of that day was much more distant from Boston than is that of today; for a regular line, even of a poorly administered horse railway, which gives you for five cents a car once in five minutes, makes communication much easier than an hour in an omnibus which charged you a quarter of a dollar for each ride...
Translated from the Omnibus: Professor - "Meier, where is your thesis?" Meier - "I believe you have it there in the hand." Professor - "So? When have you it then written?" Meier - "Sunday morning at the breakfast - or, rather directly after. Professor - "I see here but no work. Will you your-self convince? The sheet is empty!" Meier - "Thunderweather then have I out of mistake instead of in the ink-glass in the milk-glass dipped...