Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downtown building in Springfield had become infested with thousands of sparrows. One afternoon someone noticed the two hawks hovering over the spot, stopped to watch them swoop and kill. Next afternoon the hawks came to hunt again. More people stopped to watch. Before long three traffic policemen were needed to handle the hundreds who gathered daily to watch the aerial raids. Because the hawks always came at about 5:15 p. m. a merchant got the idea of starting a daily pool based on the fractional minute of the birds' appearance. Soon everyone from Mayor J. W. Kapp...
...Boston College Library Auditorium in Chestnut Hill at 8 o'clock this evening, the University Debating Council will meet the Fulton Debating Society of Boston College in their fifth debate. The University debaters will take the affirmative of the resolution: "Resolved, That the international traffic in munitions should be outlawed...
...Debating Council, a schedule of six debates has been arranged for the balance of the year, including a debate with Boston College, undefeated as yet by the Council. The subject of the debate, which will be held March 13 in Jordan Hall, Boston is: "Resolved: That the international traffic in munitions should be outlawed." Harvard will support the affirmative. Trials for the debate will be held today, according to 10. M. Rowe '27, coach of the debating team...
This move, or rather lack of action, is unreasonable, unfair, unprofitable, and inconsistent with the Association's action in reducing the price of H.A.A. books for the remainder of the year. It appears that it is charging what the traffic will bear, a policy which is entirely inconsistent with an Athletic for All policy. It figures that students will not but H.A.A. books at the full price, but that they probably will buy participation tickets at the same old price. That this reasoning is unjustified may be seen by considering the fact that many students did not think it worthwhile...
...Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City, all traffic was cut off. Troops with fixed bayonets lined the road. At strategic intervals the Shui-hui (volunteer fire companies) were drawn up with their hoses ready. They might have been preparations for a riot, a great parade or a state funeral. A funeral in a sense it was. All night long gangs of coolies in ragged padded cotton clothing passed down that roadway dragging creaking carts and wheelbarrows piled high with boxes and packing cases. Three thousand separate cases...