Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh. "There are still some," he said, "who sit apart, who do not see,, who cannot understand. To them our industrial life is the apotheosis of selfishness. They cannot realize that the rattle of the reaper, the buzz of the saw, the clang of the anvil, the roar of traffic are all part of a mighty symphony, not only of material but of spiritual progress. Out of them the nation is supporting its religious institutions, endowing its colleges, providing its charities, furnishing adornments of architecture, rearing its monuments, organizing its orchestras and encouraging its painting...
Automobile traffic in the vicinity of the Stadium tomorrow before and after the Dartmouth game is to be regulated by arrangement with the Police Departments of Boston and Cambridge and the Metropolitan District Commission, and will be handled as follows...
...some of the athletically "big men" of Emerson, to talk things over. Result: on Monday morning, instead of attending classes, some 800 Emersonians in floppy trousers, sporty sweaters, trim skirts and fetching blouses, went shouting and laughing through Gary's business section. Police disbanded them for "obstructing traffic" but many of them later stood around outside Emerson High School, hissing, gibing, catcalling at nonstriking students when school let out. Policemen saw to it that the 24 Negroes went home unmolested...
...Oxford," Chadwick continued, "the town is merely an adjunct of the University. We don't have the traffic problem as you do here in Cambridge. Moreover we are used to looking the wrong way for motors. When I start across Harvard Square, I took to the right. By the time I realize I should be looking the other way a honking horde of cars has descended upon me from the left. It's quite the most dangerous place in the world...
...method of controlling traffic by lights appealed to the visiting scholar. "In Picadilly," he said, "the lights are being tried, but are not used at all generally in England...