Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain times or in emergencies, when conversation is kept at a minimum. During dinner and supper, one of the brethren reads aloud while the others eat. For deeper meditation, the Society sets aside a two-week retreat in the summer, and one week in the winter. Fortunately, the subway traffic next door does not disturb the "greater silence" which lasts from supper until 9 o'clock in the morning...
Jerry Kanter 1B, coach of Closed College, plans a similar move today when he pilots Lowell House for the last time. The Bellboys play Eliot, and Kanter is said to be ready to match anything Hyde can offer, since he has the support of powerful subway alumni...
...evils of the police state. Apart from a few other changes to tone down the facts of underworld life, he leaves the play intact, and includes some of its ablest original performers: Lee Grant, hilarious as a man-hungry shoplifter who seems to have stepped right off the subway; Horace McMahon, who makes the squad commander solidly true to life; Joseph Wiseman, playing a degenerate fourth offender with chilling accuracy; and Michael Strong, as Wiseman's slack-jawed crony...
...cheering stadium receded into the shadows above the dresser, and then disappeared; the Band gave way to the sound of subway trains shunting around the yards...
...Girard Davidson, one of Chapman's former assistants, who had worked with Northwest power agencies. Moreover, Saylor charged that the Harvey family, through big Democratic Party contributions, wielded potent influence on the Government. "With money he made off war contracts," said Saylor, Harvey had bought Los Angeles' Subway Terminal Building, which had been a financial failure. "Soon after Harvey purchased the building," said Saylor, "it was filled with Federal Government departments and a large new post office...