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Word: taxi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Square . . . one subway; one taxi; one dock; one ticket; one bag; one porter; one boat; one cabin. Two dinners -- three dollars; one dance; one moon; one night; one Canal; one occan; headaches. Scrambled eggs -- bad coffee; one skyline; one bag; one porter; one taxi; two beggars . . . Times Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

...sons of Connecticut's onetime Senator Hiram Bingham, took rich Yale at its word. Announcing that it would sponsor the non-credit course, the News persuaded a professor to lecture on his own time, hired a fraternity house for a classroom, undertook to pay all expenses, including a taxi to & from class for the professor and one assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Openers (Cont'd) | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...call of the taxi horn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C- FEVER | 9/25/1935 | See Source »

...Bronx, Mrs. Jeannette Ranola, 27, mother of three, was arrested on the charge of having stolen a 75-lb. steel safe from Frank Werner, carried it down five flights of stairs to a taxi, up four flights to her own apartment, then down again and by subway to a friend's apartment where she broke it open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Order | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

Shortly after Repeal Julius Kessler returned to Manhattan with his bull terrier Roxy and his bullfinch Dickie, there passed his 80th birthday. Still sleek and jolly, he was observed stuffing pigs' knuckles and sauerkraut, running down a street after a taxi, dancing until 5 a. m. on New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Whiskey Names | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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