Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only 12% above their Depression I low, are fully 30% under 1929. That, say U. S. shoemakers, is giving the U. S. pedestrian a lot of shoe for his money. To the shoe industry, that also means a lot of business for its prices: 1936 and 1937 sales topped the 400,000,000-pair mark (an all-time record, 60% over 1929), and 1939 is expected to do it again...
...experienced cycler, Buder will be out to retrieve the honor and the $20 which he lost two years ago when he made a similar attempt and failed only because of a technicality which ruled him a pedestrian at the George Washington Bridge and which forced him to walk his machine across its crowded sidewalks...
...Proud Pedestrian...
...distressing to a proud pedestrian to find TIME on p. 2, Oct. 9 issue, including Daniel Morgan in its list of "Brainy Cavalrymen...
...fact that "cheating and illegitimate tutoring" is a "large-scale commercial enterprise" only at Harvard, the Crimson held the university partly to blame. Reasons: "the worthless teaching and organization in a great number of courses . . . pedestrian lectures . . . the machine-like routine of Harvard...