Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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J.D.S. Coleman, Yale '27: "Three things are needed at Harvard. Harvard needs a subway under the Charles River to Harvard Square, a new gym, and a football team...
...America. This was something that long needed saying, if only to give the lie to the "Constant Reader" whose form letter appears about twice a week in the local press, retelling the pathetic tale of the old lady with the black shawl who had to stand up in the subway all the way to Harvard Square...
...Herald-Tribune. Discarding a possibility of deserting the traditional building, the proprietors decreed a new pressroom. In quarters so cramped that two famed manufacturers refused the contract, an entirely new equipment has been laboriously installed. New presses; the moving of a colossal switchboard required the encroachments of a subway under one corner of the structure; a redesigned paper storage cavern stretching far under Brooklyn Bridge were bit by bit purchased, made room for and set scientifically in place. Four years this process required. Last week it was completed. In all the years not one edition or one mail train...
Entering a Metropolitan subway car last week Henri Decharbogne, famed Paris newspaperman, member of the Legion of Honor, was bumped on the head by a closing door, killed. A great cry of protest against the danger of subway doors went up. "Metro" officials, calm, ignored it; said the doors were modeled on those in use in the U. S. for years...
According to some observers the Metropolitan Subway system in Paris is the most efficient subway service in the world. Entering, one buys a ticket, the price varying according to the class. The ticket is punched at the entrance to the platform, the agent regulating the number of people passing him to avoid overcrowding on the platform. Many of the stairways are divided; people entering go down to the right, those leaving go up to the right. The wide subway doors are all on the side, usually three of them, so that the cars can be emptied and filled rapidly. Doors...