Word: pedestrianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bingo. In Los Angeles, Policemen B. G. Smith and A. J. Wycoff were not un pleasantly surprised when a motorist who had just hit a pedestrian turned out to be their old top sergeant...
Reform. In Winnipeg, Canada, a coroner's jury, investigating the traffic death of a pedestrian shouldering a case of beer, recommended that beer cases should have handles...
Caesar was the first big by-liner to do it, and it's been going on ever since: when a general finishes a war, he sits down and writes about it. Last week this postwar prerogative got off to a pedestrian start when Major General Edward P. King Jr. led off with five articles (for NANA) about his internment in Jap prison camps. A faster-talking general, in a press interview, had already stolen General King's newsiest plum: that King's superior (and prison roommate), General Jonathan M. Wainwright, was twice knocked down by Jap guards...
...machines of war roared past us, filled with expectant, tense-faced participants in this Dday. In one long block I counted seven jeeps, twelve army trucks, two jammed old busses, four pony carts and a pedestrian-all passing...
...position' and 'space.' I stand at the window of a railway carriage which is traveling uniformly, and drop a stone on the embankment, without throwing it. Then, disregarding the influence of the air resistance, I see the stone descend in a straight line. A pedestrian who observes the misdeed from the footpath notices that the stone falls to earth in a parabolic curve. I now ask: Do the 'positions' traversed by the stone lie 'in reality' on a straight line or on a parabola? Moreover, what is meant here by motion...