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Word: subway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draw large crowds to the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, where the gruelling mid-point fight can be watched, and to the banks beside the finish line. If the wind is down-stream as usual, the course will run from the basin side of the Tech boat house almost to the subway bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haines' Light Crews Meet Cornell and MIT Tomorrow | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

Long before post time Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station was so jammed that the Long Island R.R. rolled out some 13 "relief" (not to be confused with special) trains. Thousands more railbirds went by subway, bus, taxi and private cars whose owners left them in side streets or paid $4 to park in back yards. It was one of the biggest opening days in Jamaica's history; attendance, 26.424 (almost twice as many as last year); betting total, a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relief for Railbirds | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...Hurried, cold handshakes. "Don't forget to write," Vag had said. Then as they raced down the long stairs he had shouted, "Seen you somewhere." He'd heard it in a movie, but it was all he could think of. Vag had watched the swinging brass doors on the subway stairs flutter to a stop, then walked across to the Coop to buy a notebook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/14/1943 | See Source »

Working as a securities salesman from 9 to 5 in a Wall Street brokerage office was 38-year-old Archduke Franz Josef of Austria, who rumbled to work by subway from the swank Savoy-Plaza. He explained he just wanted something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...trip has been arranged to the Gardner Museum for the wives of officers in Engineering 260, 270, and the Army Soil Engineers. The date is Thursday, April 8, and the meeting place will be the platform of the Boston subway at Harvard Square at 1:30 P. M. Arrangements are under the direction of Mrs. Albert Haertlein

Author: By Ensign Fitzpatrick, | Title: Electronics School | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

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