Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would relieve the traffic congestion. Only cars bound for the game and a few milk vehicles would be abroad...
...citizens. Only at certain seasons of the year was contact possible at all along the highway. When the good movement began highways were flung out from this center and from that, most of them without leading anywhere and not linked up with any major systems of the continental traffic. Now the good roads movement has learned to think in continent, at terms and traffic is continuous
...Pantaloon, A. M. Abramson displayed certain evidences of a theatrical future. He has the art of gesture which means much in these provinces where the arm of a traffic cop is usually the ultimate. Charles Hicks in his double role is also far, far out of the ordinary. Although predicting his future is a trifle unnecessary, one can suggest that it will be amusing. Space prohibits a consideration of the whole cast, for it is more than large...
Railroads. "The steady gain in the volume of railroad traffic, characteristic of recent years, continued in 1925-26. The ton-mile age of freight increased nearly 8% over the preceding year, in which it had already marked a record. The constantly rising efficiency of the railroads is emphasized by the fact that this greater traffic was handled with practically no change in the number of employes...
Browning once wrote a poem concerning "a grammarian's funeral; a Browning is needed on the Burlington. An erudite Vice President inscribed a circular containing the words, " . . . a tremendous area in which "IS" produced two thirds of the oats and corn . . . ", and a meticulous traffic, manager neatly omitted the "IS" and inserted "ARE". The disputants consulted the University of Chicago, then Northwestern, then Harvard, Princeton and Yale. After the weighty decisions were received and considered, the matter was settled by the toss of a coin and IS was the result. Not even five great institutions of learning can convince...