Word: roadways
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...year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before. ¶While the President and Mrs. Coolidge tour hither, thither, architects and workmen swarm about the White House, make repairs. A new roadway is to be completed in the White House grounds, and an electric elevator installed in place of the old lift once allegedly used by Kermit and Archie to bring ponies to their bedrooms...
...contributions from the Federal Government). The total expenditure of slightly over a billion dollars will provide 6,751 miles of asphalt, concrete and brick roads, 14,320 miles of sand-clay, gravel and macadam, and 8,145 miles of improved dirt road?and maintenance of 234,582 miles of roadway...
...most lamentable occurrence was called to our attention the other day. It appears that a few seniors, on pleasure bent, made a desperate effort to attend one such affair. What consternation must have been theirs, to find the roadway filled with freshman Rolls-Royces and Fords (the latter vastly in the majority!) Conceive their disappointment when the hall was found crammed with freshman dilettante, seeking like moths the gay light of Boston's social whirl. Imagine their despair upon finding the punchbowl completely emptied by the thirsty lads from Gore...
...Coolidge, walking up the roadway to White Court, was nearly run down when a detachment of motorcycle policemen swung into the road behind her. She leapt to safety. Press headlines featured her escape. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts ordered an official investigation...
...device uses a plate set in the pavement. When an automobile passes over this, it makes an electrical contact. A large sign "DANGER" over the roadway is automatically lighted, giving the motorist a chance to slow down. A similar sign on the cross-street also lights up to warn cross-traffic...