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Word: subways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week ended, Culprit Lino Rivera bobbed up in a Brooklyn court on a charge of trying to use a tinfoil slug in place of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Promising once more to be good, he was paroled to a city probation officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAGES: Mischief Out of Misery | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...Because many of the ladies are unable to afford taxis, the City gave them a special permit to carry their instruments in the subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ambitious Backs | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...America everything is hustle and bustle. For example, I saw a man rush into the subway pushing everyone. As the subway stopped I followed him as he ran up the stairs, thinking something was wrong. To my amusement he sat down in the park and read the newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...four potent secretaries of the Communist Party Central Committee. Into the curiously bloody and repugnant job of Commissar of Railways, Dictator Stalin last week put big. iron-nerved Comrade Lazar Kaganovich who has just built the first eight miles of Moscow's projected 50-mile subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Major Mystery | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...another tasty course to Boston's exceedingly tempting menu of cinematic entertainments this week. Despite its pretentions and somewhat sickening title the film is one of simple and genuine amusement. The pretty, nicely romantic working girl (very well portrayed by the capable Claudette Colbert) is aided out of a subway crush by the handsome scion of one of England's best families--she doesn't realize the lofty position of the young man and unbothered by class considerations proceeds to fall quite completely in love with him. This puts a mild damper on her friendship with the likeable young newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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