Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was practical wartime socialism with a vengeance. The Prime Minister grew testy when the Communist Party persisted last week in dropping leaflets among persons in shelters inciting them to occupy London subway stations which the Government was trying to keep clear so as not to choke the city's communications. Up to last week a British desire not to ruffle Joseph Stalin has left the Communists free to propagandize as they please, but Winston Churchill had squads of Scotland Yarders raid Communist Party headquarters, confiscate Red handbills...
Self-Help. Actually London tube stations had already become the chief centres where the civilian army encamped. In the Swiss Cottage tube station Londoners who now sleep there nightly on payment of the usual subway fee of three ha'pence (about 3?) last week began turning out their own typed news sheet, The Swiss Cottager. "There's too much litter at the all clear," said The Cottager. "Dustbins are provided! Please heed this request-our last and only territorial demand...
...second place, the building will extend down three stories below the surface of the Yard, and will be capable of "indefinite expansion through underground additions." This will make it easily convertible into a bomb proof shelter, and it might even be used as a special subway station for Harvard men only...
...white building which may be seen from the subway "cheesebox" to the north is the Littauer Center, of the School of Public Administration. Behind it are the Law School and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford Street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories, and beyond it is the University Museum, home of the famed glass flowers...
...older (70 years) than Wellesley or Smith, free, plebeian Hunter College boasts no distinguished line of presidents, no dormitories, no daisy chain. Its main "campus" has long been a group of ugly old buildings on Manhattan's East 68th Street. Its 10,000 students commute to classes by subway...