Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale of railroad tickets will be held at Leavitt & Peirve's from December 14-28 to convenience Harvard men expecting to return home for the Christmas vacation. Tickets for all points south and west may be obtained between nine and five o'clock on the specified dates...
...device which automatically stops trains which have passed danger signals has been tested out successfully in the presence of representatives of the Lackawanna, Erie, and New York Central railroads. Experts declare that the device, invented by George P. Finnigan, who died immediately after completing the initial tests in 1924, insures 100% safety in railroad operations...
...Under a railroad trestle and down a rutty stretch of frost-baked road near Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx, loped a slender runner in a crimson jersey. He crested a hill and the autumn wind reached for him, baffling his breath like a hand laid over his mouth; he twisted his head to look for a rangy man who had been running at his side. For about half an hour these two, accompanied by 106 other runners from various eastern colleges, had been racing against each other over a six-mile trail for the hill-and-dale intercollegiate championship...
General Naulin and the staff of the French High Command will winter at Rabat, on the Atlantic coastline, a few miles north of Casablanca. There they will be well out of the muck and unpleasantness, but at the same time on the direct railroad to Fez and the embroiled uplands. General Boichut, commanding the extreme southern end of the French line, will likewise be exceedingly comfortable at Algiers on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile General Marty will be marooned high and wet at Taza; and Generals Pruneau, Hergault and Billotte will occupy a series of sloshy, uncomfortable positions to the west...
...well equipped to champion, in a leveling age, the traditions of an imperious past. The Boston murals all treat classic subjects: Chiron teaching a very delicate Achilles how to handle a bow; Atlas stooping among the golden girls of the Hesperides; Hercules, with a billet the size of a railroad tie in his fist, fencing with the Hydra's ducking heads...