Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Law School, appeared on its foundations. The law era lasted some sixty years, but as the University grew in wealth, the bursars office inevitably took precedence. Lehman Hall now almost obscures a small, grey tombstone, marking the site of the old meeting house, and the rattle of the subway drowns any echo of the days when Puritan preachers poured out fire and brimstone in the Square...
Local police demanded yesterday that editors of "i.e., the Cambridge Review" remove their advertisements from lamp posts and subway stations...
...pulled his ribbons out of kilter. Ike's decorations in order were: the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Order of the Bath, the French Legion of Honor, and a Russian decoration, the Order of Suvorov (which entitles the wearer to free rides on the Moscow subway). For ceremonially loaded chests of Ike and Zhukov...
...with bamboo canes, and where he had to bust a few heads himself before he taught the other inmates who was boss of the yard. He had his own mob of hoodlums, snarling youngsters who hated the sight of uniformed cops, who could spot a plainclothes dick in a subway crush, who knew how to steal "anything begun with an A. A piece of fruit. A watch. A pair of shoes. A bicycle. Anything...
Nobody was unkind enough to stress the fact that Rome's long-dreamed-of subway was a mere seven miles long (only 3^ miles of it underground) and apparently designed to carry its passengers from nowhere to nowhere. Built well away from the heart of the city where the real traffic congestion lies, its ten stations (with such impressive names as Colosseum and Circus Maximus) trail out in a dreary anticlimax through Rome's environs to the great cluster of derelict, half-completed marble buildings which Mussolini once hoped would become the site of a permanent World...