Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robinson: "In some of the newer buildings in Moscow the architecture of American pyramided skyscrapers is imitated, and the revolving street signs for the control of traffic remind the American visitor of Broadway. The newest architecture, sculpture and painting show preoccupation with mechanical forms hardly to be matched in the United States, and magazines similar to Popular Mechanics are to be seen on all newsstands...
...streets were lined with troops and cadets from the Military College in glittering full-dress uniforms. Vast areas around Parliament House were closed to traffic...
Dame Rachel Crowdy, Chief of Social Questions and Opium Traffic Section of the League of Nations, was driving home in her Ford car. The latter "was promptly suspected...
...Hawaii, the Philippines and China. Mackay Companies, further, covers the U. S. with Postal Telegraph, although to a less thorough extent than does Western Union. † It has arrangements for transmission of telegrams with Canadian Pacific Telegraphs which cover Canada; for its transatlantic cable it has traffic arrangement with Radio Corporation of America (which on the Pacific Coast co- operates with Western Union). Also, it has radio and cable con- nections with South America. The Mackay Companies intends its purchase of Federal Telegraph's radio system as a complement to its transpacific cable. Commented Vice President George V. McLaughlin...
...quickly. To cover the assignment with the thoroughness and mimetic accuracy (but not the rancor) of a Sinclair Lewis, and at the same time to create four central characters of breathless reality, and a Dickensian hurly-burly of minor characters, and to keep them moving through their swift social traffic under their own power and in their right positions, requires a highly developed social instinct and something akin to literary genius. Socially and book-technically, Little Sins is a stunning performance. And to its fundamental perfections are superadded real whimsy, real pathos, an unobtrusive cleverness at small talk...