Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wash dishes, stoke furnaces and damn near starve to get by. Now, if you come to my place, we'll give you free room, board, and tuition, a good job in the summer and enough spending money so you'll never have to take your girl home in the subway or even a taxi. You'll have your own car. Engineering? Well, no, we haven't any engineering course, but our mechanical drawing and commercial art is practically the same thing...
...prose pieces, a streetear named Leehmere--via--Subway goes astray, the Watch and Ward detective deals with a mean-eyed gun-toting John Marquand, and, to get out of Bostonian non-health and into condition, panting Lowels trip over puffing Sedgwicks on their morning run around Boston Common. The latter situations are absurd, unlike the "Draft Chart," they are not absurd extensions of existing situations, but attempts at created, impossible absurdity, like Thurber's seal-in-the-bedroom. Such attempts constitute excellent humor when they succeed. These...
Much of the vituperation that Mr. Bingham had heaped on him during his years as athletic director was because of this belief in amateurism. Alumni, subway and genuine, students, columnists, and colleges choosing the path of professionalism, all were blinded by football won and lost records and football gate receipts. Their insights into the role of college athletics went no further than the crowds in the stadiums Saturdays and the spectacle on the gridirons below. Mr. Bingham's insights went deeper, and he struggled, often almost alone, to preserve college athletics for the college student. The price he paid...
...bill provides for half-fares on public bus or subway for all commuters to any college or university. The reduced fare tickets would be available only when classes were in session and fines would be imposed upon abusers of the system...
Then There Were 1,200. After Franco's victory, Gonzalez had fled to Russia. First he was made a Soviet army general, but soon he was under arrest. He was put to digging the Moscow subway, later was shuttled from slave camp to slave camp. He told the Paris court: "Six thousand Spanish comrades came with me to Russia. When I escaped in 1948, only 1,200 were left. The others perished...