Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambridge traffic would be helped by this improvement, most of all by the new drives on the Boston bank which would fill in the present gap between Bay State Road and Otter St. The new drive would pass under the arches of the Harvard and Longfellow bridges and would thus give a continuous road which, after crossing Cambridge St., Brighton, at the end of the River St. bridge at grade, will have no other crossing at grade until it reaches the 'end of the Charles River Dam where it connects with Nashua St., which is now being widened. This...
...proposed also to build a parkway from Fresh Pond Parkway at Mt. Auburn St, to the river at Gerry's Landing and across the river by a new bridge connecting with the present Soldiers Field Road on the Brighton side. This would tend to divert a good deal of traffic which now passes through Mt. Auburn St, in front of the hospitals due to the fact that, at present. Memorial Drive ends opposite Hawthorne...
...number but considerable in their importance. Above all the salesman being in the field must have a human point of view. No matter what he is selling he will find that the demands on his time and energy are great, and if he is travelling on the road he will find that physical weariness is not an uncommon companion. If, however, a college man undertakes sales work and stays by it, building all the time the human contacts which are so essential to success, financial rewards will be adequate to offset any hardship he may have undergone...
...ever will see!" exclaimed General Smuts to correspondents, "The greatest problem before South Africa is the living together in peace and cooperation of a white and a black population. . . . If we fail in its solution, our white population is doomed in Africa, and this continent will continue on its road of immemorial barbarism...
...Banker James Strange Alexander, the little Iberian village was Tarrytown, N. Y., where his parents had settled after their arrival from Scotland. And had Banker Alexander remained in Tarrytown he would undoubtedly have become its first banker, as even at the age of 20 he was well along the road to advancement in a Tarrytown bank. But to become a Tarrytown bank president seemed to him a meagre goal for the long years of waiting it required, so to Manhattan's National Bank of Commerce he wrote, and in 1885 he became a Commerce employe. His job was copying...