Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JAMES RAMP Y. M. C. A. San Francisco, Calif...
...probable route of such traffic, in the event of the realization of the project, would be down Cambridge street, over the Charles River dam, up a ramp to the end of the bridge from the North Station to the junction of Porter and Orleans streets in East Boston, and thence over the usual road...
...letter today concerns the popular Inca pastime of Rolo, which our specialists have just discovered. At the base of the mountain we came upon a huge pile of rocks stacked haphazard at the foot of a broad ramp which led up the slope to the site of the university. We were long in a quandary about their significance, but by means of various records unearthed in the city above, or cut in the rocky faces of the cliff (details of which I must spare you), Senor Alvarotez has deduced this astonishing explanation...
...Thomas W. Slocum '90 in the "Alumni Bulletin". If the capacity of the Stadium could be enlarged, most of the dissatisfaction would be eliminated, and what remained would be inevitable, under any scheme of allotment. Mr. Slocum gives a practical suggestion for such an enlargement. "A wooden ramp," he says, "could be put over certain sections of the present seats, with cleats at proper intervals for the too rest." These sections would then be set aside as standing room for men. The advantage is evident--at least twice as many spectators could be accommodated as could be seated...