Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Building bridges is slow work. The Eliot Bridge,e which will span the Charles River between Soldiers Field Road and the traffic circle at the west end of Memorial Drive, will take a year to complete...
...Bingham '16 was consulted; the MDC doesn't want to interfere with the activities of Harvard crews. Both approaches will be continuous-flow rotaries; the MDC doesn't want another such two-headed bottle-neck as the Lars Anderson Bridge. The contract for the rotaries and for the new road on the north shore of the river will be let in July, and the work will be completed at the same time as the bridge, by the end of October 1950, according to the MDC's plans...
...From that point...there is a fine wagon road, but nowhere in the country had we been so pestered with mosquitoes as we were on this road...
Some of the individual skits are very well done. W. C. Fields manages to wreak vengeance on road-bogs at large for the wrecking of his hard-earned flivver by a member of their clan. He manages to destroy five cars in the process, and to do so amusingly, George Raft, a forger, cannot cash his million-dollar check since the police are after him and no bank will take a draught with his writing on it. Gary Cooper and Jack Oakie lose theirs because they like to sock sergeants (they are in the Marines...
...Hasty Pudding Show will start rounding up talent this afternoon for its annual, "Heart of Gold," the first production to go on the road since 1947. Casting, which is open to all undergraduates, begins at 2 p.m. in the club house at 12 Holyoke Street. Troopers of all kinds are needed...