Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last the inventive genius of Edison has discovered a way by which Harvard students can reach Boston in five seconds, instead of half an hour. No longer will we have to wait in Boston for half-past cars. Impudent conductors will trouble us no more. Soon we will not be obliged to give up our seats to ladies entering the car at the railroad-crossing, nor shall we have the pleasure of riding in town seated next to the professor whose recitations we have been cutting for the past week...
...most difficult part is the stopping. When you reach Parker's you are shot out of the tube at a very rapid rate, and if there were nothing to check your velocity you would be dashed to pieces. This is obviated by having a proctor stand at the tube, not to catch, but only to retard...