Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock, the Junior Varsity at 4:30 and the featured Varsity event at 5 o'clock. All the races are for the Henley distance of a mile and five-sixteenths, starting just below the Tech boathouse and finishing about a half-mile short of the subway bridge...
Tube Talk. In Manhattan, the German language newspaper Aufbau, conducting a department to teach refugees American manners, received a reader query: "If I feel insulted by a rude person - in the subway, for instance - what should I do? I can't very well begin to swear at him." The answer: "Certainly not. You just give him a dirty look, and you say, 'Really...
...Three are cut from the same pattern. Their page size is the same as that of standard U.S. papers. Each costs 20 kopecks (a subway ride costs 40, a trolley ride 15). There are no comic strips, no columnists, no crime or scandal, few pictures, only a stick or so of sports news about such things as chess championships. Readers do not miss them. The newly literate Russian masses have so vast an appetite for the written word that they are fascinated by news reports which U.S. readers would find dust-dry. The most that the reader gets...
...flying, drinks little, eats and sleeps much. Superstitious, he will not be photographed before a flight. Six months ago he married a Red WAC at the front. On furloughs Pokryshkin goes to Moscow for a round of theaters and tourist sights (he has been seen gawking at the Moscow subway's new, resplendent stations). After the war he wants to be a plane designer...
...pension. General Eisenhower's honorary pension would amount to 20 rubles a month, officially worth $3.85, actually worth nobody knows what. The General will receive something else more substantial: a little red passbook entitling him to ride, gratis, any time, on Moscow's spick-&-span, 25-mile subway system. Also on trolleys and busses...