Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girls riding on a Connecticut-bound train were overheard discussing their respective fiances. The first girl was saying, 'But the thing I like about him best is he's so mature. You know, real wrinkled...
...Jehovah's Witnesses case), Justice Roberts had plunked down a few tart phrases of his own. Said he: the Court had now set forth on an "uncharted sea of doubt and difficulty"; some of its decisions were like a "restricted railroad ticket, good for this day and train only...
...days and five nights they traveled in this fashion from Boston to California-500 veterans of the European war, now on their way to fight another war. When they got off the train at Camp Beale, Calif., they let out a G.I. gripe that could be heard all the way back in Washington...
Fact was that the overburdened railroads were facing an overwhelming freight load, plus a passenger-train redeployment of 21,000,000 man-moves (an average of seven trips each for 3,000,000 men). For months to come, neither soldier nor civilian was likely to find traveling in the U.S. much to his liking...
...years the Star's power and Roberts' weight have been pitted against Kansas City's $6,000,000 Union Station. "One of the best planned and most imposing [stations] this side of New York," editorialized the Star-but everybody who gets off a train has to mount two flights of steps to the lobby! "Ask the person with a weak heart who has just come here to see a doctor. Ask the woman who has just carried a baby and luggage up the long stairs...