Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: TIME has been my favorite magazine since it first appeared; and hence I wish to tell you of an impressive scene which I witnessed yesterday in New York City while riding on the subway. I got on a downtown express at the Grand Central Station about 11 a.m. ; and sitting across from me was a most distinguished looking old gentleman reading TIME. He sat up very straight, holding the magazine before him; and I was glad to see that several people on my side of the car were attracted by the bright red border of TIME'S cover...
...rumor went about that patrol wagons were on the way, many in the crowd dispersed, but a considerable number remained out of curiosity. With the Square still filled with students, the four patrol wagons, loaded with 40 policemen, arrived, charged through the crowds, and drew up at the subway station. No one was injured though several people narrowly escaped being run down by the police cars...
...smeared with dirt. Still, what's the odds-dirt or blood? Both are good for the circulation ! . . . Oh, for the peanut venders . . . that used to enliven our funeral mobs. Anything to jazz up those curiously apathetic groups that huddled on the Westchester Court House steps. . . . Like subway crowds they waited, patient and dull. . . ." World subtitles: "One-Ounce Fag Lifts Counsel's Eyebrow," "Testimony is as Full of Beds as a Barracks...
Across from us in the subway train...
...curse of systematization is to embrace the modern world it could well start with devising a means whereby these former exams might be found in less than an hour's search and under circumstances less akin to a subway rush. As matters stand the end is not worth the energy expended and the lessons of the past remain securely hidden by their supreme disorder from the students of the present. Experience may be a great teacher but her wisdom fails when her schoolbooks remain veiled from seeking eyes...