Word: subway
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...construction in front of the CRIMSON building is almost complete: The news board has virtually finished its subway to Wellesley, the editorial board has built its bomb-proof encyclopedia shelter, the business board has constructed a surplus-assets vault, and the photo board an automatic sprinkling system...
...Since subway facilities to Wellesley would undoubtedly interfere with studies, the first freshman competition of the year will not begin until after fall hour exams...
...place certainly more free from temptations to lewdness than ordinarily England has been . . .',, locking the gates was sure-fire, but the College has since spread out a little. Rank riot and excess in the form of Cambridge streets awaits every sophomore, junior, and senior who leaves his room. The subway stands ready to rocket inmates of the Houses into "the company and society of such men who lead an ungirt and dissolute life," and all the chained gates in Cambridge cannot revive President Chauncey's ban on students entering military companies...
...Institutional Approach. For its subway trade, Ohrbach's runs high-style carriage-trade ads. It never plugs special items but plugs the store. Each ad is built around a picture, attracts attention and also makes a point, e.g., one showed a man holding up a well-dressed woman in his hand, carried the caption: "It's easy to support a woman who shops at Ohrbach...
...this dismal landscape, a great, curved, steel-and-stone shrine called the Polo Grounds beckons to the faithful all summer long. By the tens of thousands they respond. They are a special, indestructible breed called Giant fans. Unprotestingly, they submit to the nerve-jangling rites of entrance: the steaming subway ride or the stuffy taxi crawling across Harlem, the foul-tempered guards who herd them through turnstiles at the gate. Inside, the vast stands sprawl in the sun, the carefully tended ball field is green and trim, ready for the game...