Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was more than the usual number of traffic snarls in Harvard Square one morning last week. To add to the confusion the subway kept belching shoppers and workers late to the office, some of whom were absorbed by the clumsy cluster of orange busses and some of whom had to insinuate themselves between the cars toward the sidewalk...
Ancient though it is, Rome got around to building a subway for the first time only last week when Benito Mussolini swung a pickax with such vigor that he cracked a paving stone in the Piazza Bocca della Verità. Five thousand Fascist workmen are to build the four miles of subway in four years, by that time will probably be as proud as the overpropagandized Red toilers in Moscow who through Intourist interpreters ask travelers: "Is it not wonderful that the Soviet form of State has enabled us to build a subway? You have no subway...
...Europe today, standers for Democracy have become a subway crush in which everyone gets on the other's feet. Great Democrat Adolf Hitler recently described Germany as ''the perfect Democracy." Great Democrat Joseph Stalin recently gave his Soviet Union what he called "The Most Democratic Constitution in the World," then riveted his dictatorship tighter by the shooting of 13 Old Bolsheviks (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante...
...eight o'clock on the morning of Monday, September 14th, I debouched on Harvard Square from the Boston-Cambridge subway. I was led along by the Harvardian who had escorted me from New York. Soon I could catch glimpses of a park full of buildings. The square and the other side of the street along which I was walking were more decently and consistently planned than the average American small town, where frame shacks and ferro-concrete skyscrapers jostle each other. In Cambridge (you must get used to the fact that there is a Cambridge other than that which exists...
...Manhattan, Negro Clarence Baker attempted to carry his bass drum through a subway turnstile, was wedged fast 45 minutes before a maintenance crew could release...