Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ferry and the toll are forgotten and the antique bridge is about to be replaced. Times and faces have changed; M. I. T. controls the waterfront, and it proposes to name the new structure the Technology Bridge, with an architectural central span, the gift of the Institute, as a memorial to its World War heroes. Harvard heartily approves, and cedes its name-claim with good will; in fact it would do so cheerfully if only the new span be wide enough for crews to pass under without danger in the races...
With peace college and town grew together. In 1846 bells and cannon proclaimed the granting of the city charter. Checked only by the Civil War with its toll of four hundred dead, prosperity advanced steadily to the present day Cambridge of the locked Charles, the subway, and the Waldorf...
...cannot blame other countries for assessing us the same amount that we are taxed, yet it is an embarrassing detail in international intercourse, the growth of which we assume to promote. There seems no valid reason why this exorbitant toll should be maintained; a price more nearly equivalent to that demanded abroad would appear far more reasonable...
...meet to honor those who in this place will meet no more. The guns are silent now; the drums have ceased to beat, the battle flags are furled, and men return to common toll. The martial fire has cooled; the harmony among the peoples that fought side by side fast fades away; the inspiration of the cause has been obscured. But a deeply precious thing remains--the memory of those who in the glowing spirit of self-sacrifice gave their lives for all that we hold dean. They died for naught if we forget that by their death they taught...