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Word: tolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stowe has little to offer the novice, One trail, a converted toll road to the peak, is gentle and smooth, while two other trails, blazed this year especially for novices, still have tough spots. Mansfield is a steep mountain, home of the Nose Dive, which was once an Olympic downhill run but is new one of the most popular export trails in the East, and, as such, draws skiers with considerable experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Summer of Labor Makes East Large Winter Sports Drawing Card | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

With a total of 266, or one out of every three faculty members polled, the faction of discontent took its highest toll among full professors, two-thirds of whom claimed imbalance of their various activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Not Satisfied With Duties, Poll Shows | 12/13/1947 | See Source »

...Flagship Ethiopia had crashed about 160 feet below the summit of Santa Maria dei Monti, which rises directly behind the villages of Ravello and Scala. Toll: 21 killed, four hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: In a South Wind | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...that what little payment actually was made by passengers was in "refuse, unwrought, broken, unstrung, and unmerchantable peag wampum." Later in the same year President Dunster informed the Court that "all the bad and unfinished wampum made by the Indians finds its way into the college treasury from ferry toll." Nevertheless, Harvard held on to the concession and its returns until 1785, when the first toll-bridge across the Charles was built and the ferry went out of business. At this point the Court forced the bridge owners to pay Harvard $666.66 (200 pounds) annually for 70 years, and when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...shortest, fastest route to the game site is over Route 9 (Worcester Turnpike) from Boston to Route 20 outside Framingham, then to Route 15 to the Charter Oak toll bridge to U.S. Route 5 into Meridan and onto the Wilbur Cross Parkway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A.L.A. Maps Quickest Route to New Haven | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

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