Word: subway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today's man-in-the-subway thinks of himself as taking a much livelier interest in science than his grandfather-in-the-buggy ever did. And though pure scientists may snort at this "interest," it is a fact that modern readers like to read about science. Books-about-science by such popularizers as Eddington, Jeans, Russell, Sullivan and Wells are widely read, sometimes even become bestsellers. That books-about-scientists might also have a popular appeal was proved by Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters. Last week Author-Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie took a leaf from de Kruif...
...Manhattan, women passengers helped Mrs. Rose Granger, 19, from a subway train, modestly formed a ring around her on the platform while she gave birth to a two-pound...
...hour and a half later a silent, dejected figure clumped up the Harvard Square subway station, walked down to Winthrop House, and stole into his room. He wouldn't speak to his two companions for a week...
Under the new system you just keep to the right of the subway island, no matter where you may be coming from. There is over little chance for doing anything wrong, because there is a forest of signs on all sides saying "Rotary Traffic. Keep Right," "Do Not Enter," "Right Turn Only," and "No Left Turn." Yesterday, moreover, there was an entire squad of Cambridge police to keep you from going wrong...
...difficulty is to find what you can do that is right. Once you get in the habit of spinning around the subway island, it is hard to got out of it without running down several signs and policemen. We might say the traffic goes 'round and 'round...