Word: subway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the advance flyer, the Corps on arrival at Back Bay will march to Park Street preceded by its Band, take subway to Cambridge yards, form, march, form and be dismissed in front of Sever Hall some time after 10 o'clock in the morning...
...biggest institution for higher learning in the world has 47,000 students, most of whom pay no tuition. To visit its campuses and buildings, among which is not a single dormitory, takes a day's hard traveling by subway. Its football teams are trounced by such tiny colleges as Albright. Last week this immense, sprawling educational factory, the College of the City of New York, which embraces four city colleges, passed not one but several new material milestones...
There was once a time when the football week-end tapeed with tomato juice. Sunday morning quarterbacks and the spotpages. Now professional football prolongs the week-end Sunday afternoon. With the subway trade, it really begins For this, Dr. Harry W. March of New York is responsible. parsuaded Timothy J. Mara to finance the first big-league pro football team--the Giants of New York. That...
...spell "Oh, Science! May it teach miracle." This puzzling tribute was aimed at a far greater contemporary assemblage of puzzle solvers, the 94th convention of the American Chemical Society, the comings & goings of whose 3,461 delegates made the lobby of Rochester's Hotel Seneca resemble a Manhattan subway at rush hour...
...Manhattan, one Max Berger, 70, stepped into an East Side subway at 125th St. carrying under his arm a live chicken. Intended for his dinner, it had been presented to him by his sweetheart. Forthright little Mr. Berger plumped himself down into a seat and began to pluck feathers from the chicken's hind quarters, reciting, presumably: "She loves me, she loves me not," to the accompaniment of horrified squawks from the chicken. Presently a Brooklyn passenger named Kay Nelson protested to Mr. Berger. Mr. Berger reassured Mr. Nelson. Said he, "I am only taking off the feathers because...