Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highways between Fort Bragg and Fayetteville got into fatal snarls. Until General Devers put his military police on the job, deaths on the highway averaged one every four days. Temporary hospital quarters in the brick barracks were sloppy makeshifts. Four locomotives, shunted on to nearby sidings, last week provided steam heat for an uncompleted hospital...
...that is Going Before. Far back in the mists of time Seniors, who once occupied the Yard, found their way from building to building by an instinct developed through long practice, not to mention an aptitude inherited from Cambridge ancestors plus a trace of Indian blood. But modern steam-heated life has dulled the senses; scholars today come not only from Cambridge and vicinity but also from Nebraska and Indo-China. Strangely enough, it is difficult for a Middle Westerner gazing with deep foreboding at the ghastly gray pile before him to know with a sudden, inner conviction that Matthews...
...begins its poleward journey by flowing steadily westward. Then it slowly shifts to become a south wind, shifts again in the temperate zone to become the prevailing westerlies. Far from their equatorial source, winds are made unpredictable by local forces. But the trades, neglected by the Age of Steam, are still blowing their ancient course. Passenger Willkie saw their first use by U. S. commercial air lines...
...Southern Railway streamliner, to begin operating this spring from Memphis to Washington, will be steam instead of Diesel drawn between Lynchburg and Bristol, Va. Reason: between those points it will use the right of way of Norfolk & Western, which gets 80% of its freight business from hauling coal and refuses to allow a Diesel on its tracks...
...Student Council decided last night to cut the amount of money given to the annual Freshman Smoker. This probably means that from now on there will be a return to the ancient tradition of a jovial get-together to give the Yardlings a chance to let off spring steam...