Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard has learned by the New York Times that her Bureau of Traffic Research is migrating to Yale. University officials have been completely taken by surprise, for they were not admitted to the secret before the general public. The circumstances immediately call to mind the case of Professor Baker's "47 Workshop," and arouse dark thoughts and suspicions of another New Haven "grab." But consideration will show these to do utterly baseless...
Pulling up its stake at Harvard, the Bureau for Street Traffic Research will move to New Haven this summer to train Yale graduates for professional work as traffic engineers...
...Bureau has been making a scientific study of traffic problems, and has been successful up to 90 percent in scientifically training drivers. President Seymour of Yale said that the new course is to study methods of stemming the number of lives lost yearly in accidents, which have amounted to 40,000 lives a year...
...trick photography. Its three ghosts all died for love of the same woman. Forgathered in a French mansion to save her daughter from marrying the wrong man, they find that humans walking back & forth through them give them the tickles. Out in the garden, where there is less traffic, they sit down for a cigaret. Two ghosts light up, offer the same match to the other one. "Non, non!" protests the superstitious third, "Pas trois...
...worth $100,000, to St. Giles Presbyterian Church of Richmond. Other residents promptly got up a petition declaring they would not welcome a church because ''the peace and quiet of the locality would be disturbed . . . clustering of a large number of cars on Sunday would constitute a traffic inconvenience and hazard." To preserve their Sabbath peace, the Hampton Gardens Association thereupon voted. 51-to-7, against allowing St. Giles or any other church to build there...