Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he feared to go on the fatal trip on account of weather conditions. The article said: -"The airplane is now reasonably safe, and the great airship inflated with helium is beyond a doubt the safest method of travel known to man, taking precedence over walking on account of traffic congestion on the streets. ... In the air the airship is practically independent of weather, as storms with attendant high winds merely delay progress to windward. . . . Severe thunderstorms and disturbances with strong vertical air currents may be avoided by changes of course, as these disturbances usually extend over a comparatively small...
...Hopper was so pressed for time that the interview took place in public, unless a car parked in the midst of the Tremonts Street traffic can be considered as privacy. In apologizing for this haste that made such an informal meeting necessary, Mr. Hopper explained that in all they years that he has been on the stage, only two weeks have been spent in vacations...
Various plans have been proposed recently to relieve the congestion of traffic around the University. One was to cut a street through the Delta connecting Broadway and Oxford Street. It is unlikely that this project will ever be carried through...
...different directions, so that by deducting from the "north-bound" score of the teller at Larz Anderson Bridge the total number of cars entering Harvard Square via Boylston Street, the number of cars turning down Mt. Auburn Street may be roughly determined. The counts will be made at the traffic "rush hours...
...young lady of thirteen who raised Brooklyn from the realm of antiquated humor to the Utopia of poesy now has a rival. Another young lady of thirteen, this time from Lynn has proclaimed her muse. Singing not of tenements and traffic but of field mice and clocks of loons, the shoe city Sappho strikes a pastoral note truly becoming in one of her age. One stanza from her "Autumn" shows how nature has fired her girlish genius. "Flocks of loons and coots and mallows Flying southward by the score...