Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Subway. On Monday of last week, a thin-nosed man with a humorously etched face, wearing crepe-soled sport shoes and a rumpled brown suit, got out of the plane which had flown him from Washington to New York. He sped by car to 2 Park Avenue, headquarters for the U.S. delegation to U.N. There at his desk he wrote a letter. He was Dr. Philip Jessup, onetime college professor and the State Department's top negotiator. He gave the letter to an aide, Albert Bender, to deliver to Yakov Malik, of the Russian U.N. delegation...
...Lexington Avenue subway Bender rode up to 68th Street. He walked into a stone mansion at 680 Park Avenue. Some children, playing in the hall, shouted "Zdravstvuite," Russian for "Hello." The mansion was the Soviet U.N. delegation's headquarters. Bender presented Dr. Jes-sup's letter...
...shells will start as usual at the Charles Street (subway) Bridge and stroke a mile and three quarters to the MIT boat house near the Cottage Farm Bridge. The additional distance on the Charles River course may prove an advantage to both Tech and the Crimson...
...dingy, one-room flat on the Rue Bonaparte, oil lamps and candles light up the empire fauteuils, the portraits of Napoleon and the etchings of Napoleon's greatest battles. Fèvre has never ridden in the subway or a bus; he steadfastly refuses to switch on an electric light or read a daily paper. "What men call progress," he says bitterly, "is nothing but a sham. Transportation has improved, but noble sentiments become rarer...
This afternoon's race will follow the usual Charles River Basin course. The start is at the Charies Street (subway) Bridge and the finish line is 15 yards before the MIT boathouse which stands slightly cast of the Cottage Farm Bridge...