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Word: pedestrians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, as a seemingly endless column of NTS (Communications) men cadenced their way across the busy intersection near Littauer, the usual traffic and pedestrian jams resulted on either side of the khaki-clad marchers. Suddenly one of the feminine onlookers gave a deep sigh and exclaimed to her friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 10/1/1943 | See Source »

...Southwest Pacific Theater, where he was Chief of Staff for Air after Pearl Harbor, Ralph Royce's showing had been only soso. Army airmen charged pedestrian performance more to a generally inept air command than to personal failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Some Changes Made | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Backward, Turn Backward. In San Francisco, a pedestrian stopped by Police Inspector George Page explained why he was walking backward: "I like to read the expressions on the faces of the people who are following me." Subject for Study. In Hackensack, N.J., county jailers greeted Rose Mann, charged with assault & battery, studied her 360 pounds, studied their cell doors, arranged for her release without bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 6, 1943 | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Mohamed Ali Jinnah was riding high (literally - on a dais mounted on a Dodge truck) when his Moslem League convened in Delhi in April. Never before in the League's hitherto pedestrian history had his followers turned out in such numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rose Petals & Scrambled Eggs | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

Traffic Hazard. In Richmond, Calif., when Autoist Charles Foley made a slow left turn, meticulously hand-signaling out the window, he lost his wrist watch to a light-fingered pedestrian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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