Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This prosperity was almost too good to last. Chicago had scores of policy "wheels" -the circular devices from which winning numbers are drawn. Each "wheel" was named-there was the Erie-Buffalo-Goldfield Wheel, the B & O, the Windy City-Subway-Big Town. Each was served by hundreds of runners and had thousands of loyal customers. Each was a gold mine. The Capone Syndicate set out to consolidate them into one big gold mine...
...test its shock through the rock, the engineers surrounded it by scaled-down diggings representing installations such as subway tunnels, concrete foundations of buildings and other underground structures that might be damaged by rock waves in an atomic war. Elaborate special instruments (cost: $2,000,000) measured the motion of the rock and its destructive effect. The results will be kept secret as were the results of earlier tests in clay, soil and other ground materials...
...College Conant roomed at 7 Linden Street. "Mrs Mooney's Palace of Pleasure" as it was called. His fellow pleasure-seeker John P. Marquand '15 glories in relating one of the main athletic diversions at 7 Linden, Called "the two beer dash," it consisted of rushing by subway into Boston, drinking two beers, and returning to Cambridge in the shortest possible time Conant's prowess in this field have not been recorded for posterity, but he has always been recorded for posterity, but he has always been known as a capable athlete...
...detected traces of the Johnnie Ray wail. They were bothered by the sound of Peggy's gentle voice struggling against a clattering rhythm section, galloping violins, and something that roared like the M-G-M lion. The overall effect was a little like an echoing nightmare in a subway express. But it didn't bother the fans of "the new sound" (TIME, Oct. 29): they were buying the platter faster than any Decca record since Good Night, Irene. Peggy Lee's attitude: "I sing the way the song seems to want to be sung...
Meanwhile the Harvard Square Business Men's Association was campaigning to eliminate the subway kiosk. But when they discovered that having to walk from Central Square would drive way customers, the razing program went up in smoke. The rotunda increased traffic snarls and the CRIMSON noted that this was particularly dangerous for "untrained freshmen...