Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...health and recreation building with courts, rinks and swimming pools, 5) a large hotel especially designed for conventions of out-of-town industrialists, 6) a fashion center for wholesaling, distribution and display of the garment industry, 7) many-storied underground garages, wide sidewalks, rooftop restaurants, glass-enclosed subway entrances and combination sunken-garden and retail shopping areas...
...fine aperitif. But they meant nothing to 15,000 racing fans who jampacked Belmont's grandstands. Far more exciting to them were two other innovations sponsored by Belmont's democratic young president: 1) free bus transportation from the Long Island end of New York's Independent subway line; 2) a tryout of the Daily Double (combined betting on the first and second races of the day's card), a workingman's dream of turning $2 into a four-door sedan...
Cardinal point of Hauser's study is the split personality of the Japanese. At home he is "serene and tender," is so hypersensitive he requires vases of flowers in his subway trains; in uniform he is "as ruthless as the Prussian sergeant" and is capable of such atrocities as the Rape of Nanking. In explaining him Hauser eschews Freud for Cervantes: he is "a frustrated knight whose quixotic sense of chivalry makes him fight windmills and cut his belly if he is defeated." Thus millions of Japanese have been convinced of the sanctity of their service to China, have...
Diplomatic Courtesy. In Paris, Frenchmen are tipping their hats as the subway trains stop at George V station...
...races are over 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. The first race of the afternoon is scheduled for 5:00 o'clock, with the fifties and Jayvees coming to the line at fifteen minute intervals. The feature event of the afternoon between the Varsity crews is set for 5:45 o'clock...