Word: pullmans
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...raise in tuition may "price Harvard out of the market" when it comes to maintaining its standings as a democratic institution on a national basis. Students from the Mid and Far West would be unlikely to shell out increased tuition, and another hundred or so for the Pullman people twice a year, while meeting high metropolitan living expenses, when they could go to increasingly good state colleges almost for nothing...
...crest of a long Allegheny mountain grade last week, the Pennsylvania's slick Sunshine Special stopped to uncouple an engine. Suddenly, the rear Pullman broke loose. Like a runaway in the Perils of Pauline, it swept back downhill...
...double-engined streamliner, Red Arrow, bellowed out of a black Allegheny Mountain tunnel and began a long downgrade run for the famed Bennington Curve.* She was an hour late. Conductor J. A. McCormick felt the speedup as he walked through the lounge car toward a Pullman up ahead. Suddenly he stopped: "I sensed something-I don't know what-telling me to wait...
...dead and the 121 injured, scores of shaken wordless, half-clad survivors still wandered aimlessly in the mountain dawn. Nobody knew what had caused the Red Arrow to leave the track. For the moment, Conductor McCormick was too preoccupied with his strange presentiment to care. In the Pullman he had hesitated to enter, a half dozen people had died...
...with snow, virgin white on the rooftops, instantly debauched into slush on the streets. Open horse-drawn coaches were abandoned in favor of the family's cosy Daimlers. But in drab Waterloo, draped with tattered bunting, crowds stood shivering six-deep to watch the farewells. Before a royal Pullman smothered in hyacinths and cyclamen, the Queen pecked at her relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister, and the Princesses in girlish blue and rose beamed with excitement. Just as the train pulled out for Portsmouth, the clouds parted and a shaft of feeble, wintry...