Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers got an unlikely bouquet from James H. Gipson, peripatetic Idaho publisher: "I cannot recall a single instance of rudeness or bad manners. This is true not only of those in high places . . . but of the policemen, the subway guards, the bus drivers, and the man in the street generally...
Pound Foolish. In Manhattan, Arthur Crayton tried to pick the pocket of a fat man asleep in a subway station, got his hand caught firmly when the sleeper shifted, was finally extricated by two cops...
...times that the squad's emergency-equipped truck was called out last year, about a quarter were for non-fire rescue purposes. Spectacularly and gruesomeness are part and parcel of jobs undertaken by the four squad men, who only recently had to jack a subway train up in order "to get a guy out from under...
...improved Adams outfit never had a chance aginst the league leading Funsters. Dudley had a harder time beating the Lowellites who tired at the end before the fast breaks of the subway trained Commuters...
...situation looks hopeful for all subway-riding students, and with enrollment past its peak, Watson states definitely that "two terms will be the maximum time before every student is housed. For men who have commuted since September this will be their last term, and in a year we expect the whole situation to be pretty much back to normal," Watson continued...