Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authorities with quiet amusement but they do so no longer. With her Shavex-colored limousine, sound trucks blaring hymns, hired sandwich men and airplanes scattering leaflets, "Sweet Violet," as the penny press calls her, can be counted upon to draw large crowds of gawpers who mill about, tie up traffic for hours (TIME, April 15, 1935). Usually the crowd's sympathies have been with Widow Van der Elst, but the testimony in the Buck Ruxton case was too strong even for British stomachs...
...customs office and the State police. So impressed was Mrs. Eustis by the "teachability" of German shepherds that in 1928 she wrote an article about her smart dogs for Saturday Evening Post, mentioned the fact that shepherds every day led several thousand blinded German War veterans through city traffic...
...Nashville, Tenn. a friend read her article to blind, young Morris Frank. He wrote to Mrs. Eustis and she promptly invited him to visit her at Fortunate Fields. There he was trained to use a German shepherd named "Buddy." When he returned home he tested Buddy in congested traffic, enthusiastically cabled Mrs. Eustis that Buddy was a success, that she must come to the U. S. and start with his help a "philanthropic school" for training more dogs like Buddy. Next year the pair founded "The Seeing Eye" at Nashville. Three years ago it was moved to Morristown...
...first "built up" psychologically, encouraged to find their way in familiar surroundings. Then the blind student gets a dog whose harness, equipped with a semirigid, U-shaped handle, is sensitive to the slightest human touch. With an instructor at hand, the student tests his dog in Morristown traffic. When at month's end the student can take his walk without the instructor, he is graduated...
...through the bright blue sky which forms a clear, curving vault over the destinies of Harvard, there flashes a splendid new meteor:--one well fitted to take its place beside such marvellous and awesome celestial bodies as the Tercentenary Celebration, the Yale Race, the Freshman Smoker and the Rotary Traffic Program which is functioning in all its diabolic efficiency in Harvard Square. Such fulsome praise belongs only to an event of the first water; one which will be flashed to the far corners of the globe in precedence to all else of importance happening at Harvard. This afternoon a stalwart...