Word: shortcut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paseo had been laid out by the Emperor Maximilian in 1865 as a shortcut from downtown Mexico to his palace atop Chapultepec, three miles away. It was called the Calzada del Emperador (Emperor's Highway) until the empire's fall. Republicans renamed it Paseo de la Reforma in honor of their laws separating church & state. Later, the rich lined it with great mansions; France's best landscape designer was imported to make it look like the Champs Elys...
...great coaxial cable joining Los Angeles with Miami. But about 400 special television boosters will have to be built before New Yorkers can see Hollywood stars, or Californians can see a World Series. A Chicago-to-Denver-to-San Francisco system of radio relay towers may provide a shortcut. Without cables or relays, television's world would stretch little farther than the local horizon...
...fact was, as most of the U.S. was beginning to realize, that there could be no dramatic shortcut to world peace. What the U.S. could and would have to do was well expressed by Hungarian-born Novelist Arthur Koestler, onetime Communist and now a crusader against Communism, arriving for his first visit...
...rich fields of northern Argentina, sugar cane grows as high as an elephant's eye, and avocados are as big as coconuts. But the great world port of Buenos Aires is 1,000 miles to the south, and the towering Andes have always blocked the shortcut route west through Chile to the Pacific. For three-quarters of a century, the people of the region have loudly demanded a trans-Andean railway; for more than a quarter of a century they have been building it. Last week they had it. A coca-chewing Indian had slung a sledge, a last...
...Charles River was not the same several million years ago in the pre-glacial era. At that time, it probably took the most obvious shortcut to the ocean at Narragansett Bay, considerably south of its present mouth. In those days, the Charles was just an agglomeration of several smaller streams. Then, only two million years ago, there was a great uplift in the land area followed by a street of glacial ice down from the Arctic. With the gradual recession of the ice, the Charles became a maze of small lakes and streams that were soon afterwards consolidated into...