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Word: pedestrians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge policemen stood by most of the morning, but their activity most of the morning, but their activity was limited to ordering pedestrian and vehicle traffic to keep moving. There was no heckling or singing. Clerks and foremen employed by the company crossed the picket line freely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meat Plant Pickets Revived By HLU, Radcliffe Support | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

...critics say that he is pedestrian and parochial, that his whole career has been spent in legislative dickering rather than creating or debating broad issues, that in many respects his administration would just be a G.O.P. version of the Truman Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: MARTIN | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...York, some of these normally inaudible sounds were accidentally overheard. Cops started punching the wrong people and the people started yelling. The first was a Bronx candy dealer named Samuel Grossman. He complained that a patrolman had jerked him out of his car, accused him of annoying a woman pedestrian, and punched him in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: What Was a Cop to Think? | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Northern blood and Southern guts, held in solution by a lively plot. House Divided lacks the nostalgia of MacKinlay Kantor's Long Remember, the flinty humor of Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, the sexy folderol of Gone With the Wind. In sticking closer to the pedestrian facts of history, it is more convincing-if less exciting-than its predecessors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crinolines & Corruption | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Here in the Hotel Schroeder and in Milwaukee Auditorium two blocks away, the keynote thus becomes "Building, AVC.' In an opening-gun all-day Workshop tomorrow, delegates will exchange experiences and ideas on the pedestrian difficulties of integrating a young organization with its community environment. "Successful Chapter Meetings," "How to Raise Funds Locally," and "Techniques of Recruiting New Members" typify the topics for panel discussion. Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.'s Saturday morning address on housing will stress action on the local level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC | 6/19/1947 | See Source »

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