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Word: subway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also know what he was doing when he boarded the subway for Cambridge, but strange to say the appearance and dress of the Harvard man also strike him as "very interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Freshman Is Not Surprised by What He Finds Here Although He Lives in Middle West | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

...them sells herself to her sensual boss, and although her condemnation is half facetious, it is clear that her act is not to be admired. Another throws himself before a subway train, and although he has been a complacent parasite on his pauper friends, there is the uncomfortable hint that in his death he is the bravest of them all. Ken Holden, the some-what major figure, trims his political views to suit his status of the moment, and when he learns that his life-giving job is merely a concoetion of his father's well-meant trickery, he gets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

...since 1923 has there been a "five-cent Series"-i.e., a World Series in which all games are played within subway distance of New York City baseball addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five-Cent Series | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Serge Koussevitsky, Conductor. Symphony Hall, 9 o'clock. Symphony Hall is on Massachusetts Avenue and Hunt Street in Boston, and may be reached by any street car going east on Massachusetts Avenue from Harvard Square or by subway, changing at Park Street to a Huntington Avenue car. Street car and subway conductors will holler on arrival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRAM OF TODAY MARKED BY REGISTRATION OF DELEGATES | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...broke Speyer Brothers went out of business and "Hen Opp" retired, made no more money, bought little more art. With Zeppelins over London in 1917, Sir Charles Holmes's thoughts turned to "Hen Opp,'" who had helped finance the Underground, was called "Father of the London Subway." In his memoirs published fortnight ago* Sir Charles recalled how "Hen Opp" quickly arranged to store in "the unused station in the Strand . . . a perfect subterranean fortress . . . some 900 of our best pictures, with selected works from great private collections." Generous to the last in loaning drawings from his own collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hen Opp | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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