Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important issue of property taxes was next to be considered. Last year, when it came time to have town meeting, the 92 miles of town roads were so badly drifted with snow that it was decided to raise the tax and buy a new $12,000 snow plow. There was much agitation this year to reduce the tax from its all-time high of $6 per $100 of assessed valuation...
...pressed commuters who had to rise at dawn to make a 10 o'clock class. Now the problem is the substantial rent increase for next term, announced by the University on February 15. AVC declares that it is ready to assist students who find that this new expense will plow too heavily into their budgets. A special AVC committee, which is already investigating the rent problem, will study individual complaints carefully. If official action fails to satisfy the plaintiff, AVC will make specific, recommendations to the University, should the case warrant...
...part in the daily dodge 'cm game. Cheerfully assuming that safety grows with numbers rather than with discretion, the Yard-bound crowds forget about cars in the hope that cars will forget about them. Taking the cue from any leader who happens along, they lower their heads, and plow blindly ahead, looking up only when their soles scrape the far curb. At the opposite extreme from the Cautious Upperclassman, the heedless flying wedge dares any motorist to watch out, with the result that a few fenders barely miss indentation. And every so often, of course, a man is knocked down...
...only have the recurring snowfalls kept plow-crews constantly on the go since Christmas, but they will necessitate an extensive road repair program this spring, Cambridge Public Works Commissioner William McMeuimen said...
...College's long, slow return to "normalcy" begins tomorrow at 8:30 o'clock. For the first time since the war more men will leave Cambridge this term, diplomas in hand, than are expected to plow through the traditional registration line at Memorial Hall...