Word: subway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of the narrowness of the temporary footbridge over the Charles at Boylston street, the Boston Elevated will run extra subway trains between Harvard square and Central square, and extra surface cars from Central square along Western avenue to Allston, with free transfer between, to accommodate those who wish to attend the afternoon exercises in the Stadium. In addition, the subway service between Boston and Cambridge, and the surface car service between Cambridge and outlying suburbs will be increased. The Stadium terminal of the Cambridge subway will not be used
...League, told her love for chile concarne and the late French painter Odilon Redon, and recalled that when she sold her first two pictures two years ago through Director Alfred H. Barr Jr., of the Museum of Modern Art, she didn't have a nickel for the subway ride up town...
...that the Rightists bomb cities and towns "only when military necessity leaves no alternative." At Salamanca the official Rightist spokesman declared: "Our objective in Barcelona was primarily the terminals of the railroad system, but the casualties in the city were heavier than they might have been because the North subway station had been turned into an underground ammunition depot. The storage of ammunition in the heart of a city is against the most elementary rules of war. The result was that our bombs exploded the ammunition dump and the crash of the boxes of dynamite, cartridges and so forth turned...
Complete plans of the reconstruction of Moscow are included, with dramatic illustrations of the new streets, water ways, parks, new typical block plans for housing, the new subway and subway stations, and the new Moscow River embankment. Housing developments in several cities are also illustrated and the plans of construction in many other cities, including the agricultural cities of Zernograd and Kirovsk...
Apparently not counting on the respect of young voyagers for any future esthetic effects, the prospective subway artists considered one of their problems to be that of finding mediums which no pencil could mutilate. Murals would also have to be resistant to vibration, dirt and cold. Technical aid on these points was available from one of the best-qualified experts on artists* materials in the U. S. Many artists credit 40-year-old Ralph Mayer with reviving tempera painting almost singlehanded through his course on it at Manhattan's Art Students' League in 1931. A chemical engineer...