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Word: subways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to The Daily Graphic, London illustrated journal, American capital is to provide London with the ''largest underground freight subway in he world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...idea was to try to come at, the forces in motion beneath the facts of troublesome wartime. Unembellished by pictures, headlines or advertisements, the four pages had offered amiable musings upon broad political and broader national issues: upon Art, Literature, even Manhattan Architecture and the conversation of shopgirls in subway trains as suggestive of the cycle through which this and other countries were passing. In the writing, there was a rich personal flavor, informal yet dignified, unhurried but never verbose. Each issue was a monolog by an unprejudiced ruminative man who was as likely to weave into his discourse some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tax Publicity | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

Some took a shower. Some drove automobiles in a general northerly direction. A few of the more intelligent paid ten cents and studied on the benches in the subway. Some looked longingly at the Charles, but realized that they had no place in which to take the necessary cleansing shower afterward. Everyone agreed, in Mark Twain's phrase, that something ought to be done about the weather, but no two opinions coincided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TROPICAL INTERLUDE | 6/5/1925 | See Source »

Dormitories, recitation halls, libraries, banks, boathouses, subway stations, monuments and gymnasiums peer forth from behind tall brick chimneys and defy us to orient ourselves. The street cars thunder past every minute or two, and conversation on Massachusetts Avenue is impossible due to their flat-wheeled discord. The chance of meeting a violent death from automobiles every time we go to class has become common-place, and only a falling blimp or an earthquake can now thrill us. If the purpose of life be considered as a preparation for the hereafter, we are rapidly acquiring the proper nonchalance toward the transition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD CAN NO MORE BE COMPARED TO WILLIAMS THAN AN ELEPHANT TO A ROSE" | 5/29/1925 | See Source »

...Business School is a serious consideration with some people in Cambridge was evidenced yesterday when a huge red flag with a large dollar mark inscribed on it was found floating from the top of the new Counting House under construction in the southwest corner of the Yard, opposite the Subway Rotunda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED FLAG IS HOISTED ON NEW COUNTING HOUSE ROOF | 5/15/1925 | See Source »

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