Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across the prairies, clearing a path for the cattle. It was heartbreaking work; they fought drifts by day, worked by lantern light after dark "caking" the tired stock with concentrated protein feed. But in a week they got 2,500 of their 3,600 fine Herefords into railroad cars and on their way to market...
...great centers of learning no longer on the problems of right and wrong, but rather on the problems of right and left. Let us look at conservative Yale today, with the Skull and Bones and the Book and Snake hinting of the secret caucus, and the New Haven Railroad still running two hours late...
...digression on the nature of the New Haven trolley is first necessary. Open on both sides, the cars have seats extending across their full width from one side to the other. There being no center aisle, each passenger steps from the street into his seat, as in a European railroad coach...
Brief Encounter. At the Tremont. A fine motion picture, made by Noel Coward from his own one-act play, "Still Life." It deals with the love tragedy of two middle-class English citizens who meet in a railroad station and develop their "star-cross'd" relationship from there. Coward employs the technique of the dream, combined with fine photography, to achieve remarkable success...
Instead, the ever-alert, ever-thoughtful Athletic Association waits until four days before game-time to make its announcement. In the meantime, people have been invited, hotel rooms reserved, deposits paid, and railroad tickets purchased. And one prompt announcement by the H.A.A. could have averted most of the inconvenience, unpleasantness, and expense that now results. Sedgwick William Green...