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Word: subways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poetica. In The Bronx, Alan Siegel, summoned for smoking in a subway, defended himself in eight stanzas of wretched doggerel, got punishment to fit both crimes. The magistrate's decision: "Your poem is fine, it's quite a line. Next time heed 'No Smoking' sign. The verdict is $2 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Modern man has developed innumerable devices for blowing himself up, giving himself bad eyesight, high blood pressure, flat feet, nervous indigestion, and ossification of the brain. He has produced an atom bomb and a panty girdle, the vitamin pill, the comic book, the subway gum machine, the soap opera and the revolving door. But in the minds of thousands of New Yorkers all of these achievements pale when compared to the Fifth Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Infernal Machines | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...York City's Board of Transportation reported that during 1946, while United Nations delegates met in the city, subway turnstiles had absorbed 101,200 foreign coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...reach the Boston Arena, scene of tonight's hockey game, Boston's streetears offer two routes. By subway change at Park Street to take a Huntingon Avenue car, and get off at Symphony station. By surface car the Massachusetts Avenue car goes to Mass. station. The fan should change there and continue via any car that is routed down Massachusetts Ave., getting off at Symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Trails Lead to Arena Hockey Duel | 12/18/1946 | See Source »

...where students had no worries about attendance at Indoor, the spectator at the downtown sports palace finds himself competing with subway alumni, basketball addicts and Garden habitues for even the most mediocre seats. H.A.A. officials might well have done the undergraduate a service by exacting from Garden officials guarantees of decent seating, or at least the same kind of treatment that student fans could expect at the Cambridge floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garden Gander | 12/17/1946 | See Source »

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