Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui, unroofed houses, wrecked communications. At Nagoya, a despondent Japanese supplemented the work of the elements by throwing himself under a freight train. He was killed, the locomotive and 16 cars were wrecked, traffic from Tokyo to Shimonoseki stood still...
...found Olympic competition the least enjoyable of his career; how he trained by running nine miles to work and back in Medford, Mass; how before the Brockton Marathon in 1911 he breakfasted on 12 oranges, a bag of pine nuts and a pound of caramels; how to dodge traffic in a marathon; and how he kept going between marathons as printer, scoutmaster, schoolteacher, soldier...
...Great Lakes trade. Shipping men last week predicted that the tonnage shipped this year will equal the 1929 record of 138,574,441 tons, that the Sault Ste. Marie locks, busiest in the world, will pass a tonnage equal to that of 1929, when they had a traffic greater than that of the Panama and Suez Canals combined...
...honor or stipend, as the case may be. The important changes are these: the peddling of notes has been prohibited for the whole year round, instead of just before examinations; direct mention has been made of the tutoring schools, to make it clear just what sort of traffic is aimed...
Died. Ralph W. Ince, 50, oldtime cinemactor &film producer, brother of the late Producer Thomas H. Ince; when his automobile rammed an iron traffic standard; in London...