Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers, who disregard nature until it makes more noise than the subway, paid scant attention to the snow that was falling when they awakened one day last week. The day was almost mild (29°), the sky was a conservative shade of grey and the wind breathed as apologetically as a Japanese diplomat. The snowflakes themselves descended in a silent and orderly manner, like letters dropping down a mail chute in a good trust company. It was mid-afternoon before the average citizen began to notice how heavily the smothering snow was falling (it averaged 1.8 inches per hour...
...clock, central Manhattan subway stations were jammed with pushing, gesticulating throngs. Shoe stores were invaded by snow-powdered hikers in search of rubbers and galoshes. Hotels were besieged; and a backwash of the stranded headed for bars, all-night movies and the apartments of friends. Meanwhile the Fire Department was struck by the horrible thought-it couldn't move its trucks. Its engine-house gongs rang out the "five sixes" (all firemen report for duty). It got radio stations to ask the citizenry kindly not to let their houses burn down...
...those who will be his closest associates throughout his college career. This is true, but in a much more limited sense than our Freshman would like to believe. The major group outlines are already formed; they were formed, as a matter of fact, before he ever stepped off the subway in Harvard Square...
...tunnel to the Yard runs from the Winthrop transmitter, through a short section of the dining hall tunnel, under Lowell, and up Linden Street. It consists of a narrow catwalk under Massachusetts Avenue between the top of the subway tunnel and the street, before connecting with the first tuning at Wiggles-worth...
...these "state U's" and other colleges in the United States. When University of California president Robert Gordon Sproul recently assorted that. "American faculties overwhelmingly agree that Harvard is the first institution of the land," he simply poured salt in the wounds of the student had alumni, subway as well as actual, of every last one of the other...