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Word: traffice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Climbing a flight of stairs and entering a barren room with dirty green walls, we found that things weren't so dead after all. A switchboard operator was busy directing the heavy traffic of telephone calls, and rough-looking men were pushing bales of "Curley, Courageous, Capable" posters from one back room to another. We asked one of the poster-pushers where we could find Curley's publicity director. After looking us over thoroughly, he pointed to a diminutive man in shirtsleeves and shouted "Callahan! These two guys want to see Smith." Callahan said Smith was on the telephone...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin and Samuel B. Potter, S | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 10/6/1951 | See Source »

Unfortunately, there is no other possible space for large-scale parking near the dormitories. The narrow streets must be left clear for the snow and fire equipment. But the few broader ones, including Boylston, Massachusetts, and Mount Auburn, can easily accommodate both parked cars and traffic. They would take care of the Business School lot absentees and others who do not enjoy a hike on snowshoes. In case of other homeless machines, there is a vacant plot next to the Peabody Museum which can be made to handle at least 100 automobiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take to the Streets | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

...having been the fastest. Degree recipients went towards and away from the platform at a rapid clip with constant prodding to keep moving. Reason for the speed was the 33-minute delay in the start of the exercises while Governor Paul Dever worked his way through Boston and Cambridge traffic...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Commencement, School Fill Summer; Wilson, Austin, Wilder Get Degrees | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...having been the fastest. Degree recipients went towards and away from the platform at a rapid clip with constant prodding to keep moving. Reason for the speed was the 33-minute delay in the start of the exercises while Governor Paul Dever worked his way through Boston and Cambridge traffic...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Commencement, School Fill Summer; Wilson, Austin, Wilder Get Degrees | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...fighting erupted in one sector after another, U.N. combat commanders asked their G-2s, "Is this it?" The G2s didn't know, but the portents were strong. Red motor traffic behind the front was the heaviest of the war. Allied airmen destroyed or damaged 4,364 vehicles in one week-but they could not claim to have stopped more than a fraction of the traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Is This It? | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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