Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wounded at Pearl Harbor (TIME, Jan. 19, 1942). Although simpler and quicker than X ray, the locator (which is attached to a sensitive ammeter) had hitherto been considered too crude for such fine work. The assistant who helped the Mt. Sinai surgeon use the instrument was its inventor Manhattan Subway Engineer Samuel Berman...
...have resulted in the formulation of irrepressible strategy. The invaders will arrive by sleeper on the New Haven Railroad, augmented by a sea force which will land in Boston Harbor in a flotilla of 8-oar shells and make rendezvous at H-hour minus 10 in the Park Street subway station. (Any local Elis and Harvard Quislings wishing to contribute fare may send their dimes to D-41 McKinlock...
...beginning to look as if every member of the Ivy League except Harvard will have a "formal" team this year, although all are our-tailing their schedules to avoid long trips. But they're all keeping some semblance of a schedule, and not limiting themselves to subway travel, on the theory that if the Government wants them to stop football it will say so; and in the meantime any drastic moves are unnecessary...
John Hessler is back this month with the baton in Section A and is doing nicely with his demodulation of lookout groups, radio conference, groups and 111-A subscribers. It isn't any wonder that one platoon found themselves in the Subway headed for the Fargo Building before they realized that he said, "lookconferencehead group...
...Utopian commuter service on the 364-mile Long Island is hedged with two provisos: 1) a 20% fare increase for 55 million commuters, which White recommended; 2) easing of the crushing property taxes levied against the railroad by local governments and used in part to build superhighways and extend subway services that have cut the railroad's busi ness by 50 million passengers since...