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Word: traffics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Alva Edison has prophesied that traffic strangulation would eventually doom the skyscraper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cities | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

There will be 20 extras state police detailed to watch the traffic on the Connecticut roads and these officers will be kept on duty until Sunday night Drivers are cautioned by the Automobile Association against cutting out of line fast driving and not keeping on the right side of the road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPARTING HOST JAMS RAILWAYS AND TRAINS | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

With a remarkable lack of foresight regarding congestion of traffic the anchorites laid down the following ordinance that required more vigilance and a nice ability to measure distances rapidly. "When a Freshman is near a Gate or Door belonging to College or College Yard he shall look around and observe whether any of his Superiors are coming within three rods he shall not enter without a signal to proceed. In passing up or down stairs or through an entry or any other narrow passage if a Freshman meets a superior he shall stop and give way leaving the most convenient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN AT YALE TROD PATH OF THORNS IN 1787 | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

...make the traffic stop...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

...modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor traffic. Last week she was elected to succeed herself, having polled a vote double that of her two opponents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Here, There | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

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