Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Moses, have carried out a program of civic improvement which has been unparallelled in the city's history. In eight years they have built 92 new school buildings, 25 hospital buildings, 325 playgrounds, 8,215 acres of new parks, 14 giant low-rent housing developments, 77 miles of subway tracks, and 21 new bridges and viaducts--five of them enormous revenue-producers. The administration has put into effect a far more efficient system for administering relief and welfare agencies than the city had had before--a program widely copied in municipalities throughout the country...
Last year only two undergraduates--the average is six or seven-- worked steadily at the South End House. Once a week Daniel R. Pinkham '44, whose hobby is musical instruments of any vintage, laid aside his books and commuted by subway to the settlement house, where he tutored the Jamacia Negro Mothers' Club in music. During the beginning of the year he spent most of his time playing records to his dusky, matronly pupils, then inviting their comment and criticism. When they had gained some acquaintance of strange instruments, he brought a clavicord, fore-runner of the grand piano...
...five minutes after seven he was nearing his half-dreaded goal. As he approached the front door, all Vag's hitherto generalized confusion centered on one specific fear: he had no car . . . would she mind going into Boston on the subway? Of course she would. She had worn an expensive dress at the dance. And a fur wrap too. The dress and the wrap came before his mind's eye in painful detail. Why hadn't he thought of borrowing a car? He was over half an hour late as it was, so maybe she had gone to supper with...
They did. Vag took her arm and they walked to the Square and down the cement steps to that underground platform that seemed twice as ugly to Vag, now that he was escorting a girl. Just as they got to the bottom of the steps a subway rumbled up. People pushed for the turnstiles. Vag fumbled for two dimes. Keys, paper clips, everything small and bothersome came out of his watch pocket--but no dimes. He reached for his wallet and pulled out a dollar, then had to wait in line for the cashier. Just as they got through...
...back to Briggs by the ten o'clock deadline, movies were out of the question. So they walked slowly up Washington Street, eye-feasting in several open jewelry stores and auctions, pricing cocktail shakers, pewter beer mugs and Egyptian rings. Then, at nine-forty, they took the subway back to Cambridge...