Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cherington's "Aid for the Poor Student" makes excellent sense. There are many obstacles in the way of Harvard's adopting his principle of charging what the traffic will bear--in other words, charging those who can pay it with the full cost of tuition, and using all surplus funds to pay, if necessary, up to the full cost of the education of genuinely brilliant students. None the less some such solution is on the way. Few nowadays will defend the old-fashioned belief that a young man gains enough from the moral discipline of "working his way through...
Last week the Outdoor Advertising Association of America held its 44th annual convention in Chicago. In the "Hangar" ballroom atop the Hotel LaSalle the billboard men praised their new Traffic Audit Bureau, which does much the same job that the Audit Bureau of Circulation does for publications. And they voted unanimously to retain a ruling laid down in 1915: no hard liquor advertising on poster panels. But as before members may accept such advertising for painted boards, and beer will still be acceptable on both kinds...
...startled yesterday by calculating glances from young men standing on street corners in the vicinity of the Cambridge Fire Station, with boards in their hands, will be relieved to learn that they were merely a corps of students street watchers hired from the Student Employment office to check on traffic...
...students busily engaged in checking off traffic at Quincy and Broadway Streets revealed that although the job were not exactly exhausting, there were numerous distractions such as little urchins stridently demanding to known what was going on, and strange your ladies watching over their shoulders as they toiled. Cars with trailers also offered a perplexing problem...
...streets which will be closed to vehicular traffic...