Word: tram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, frosty dawn broke over Moscow while the stars slowly died out. Automobiles, busses and tram cars already fill the streets with life, but now for the fourth day this is a different life from the one we ' were used to when Moscow was not only the heart of Russia and the most beautiful city, but also the cradle of all that is best in the Russian genius. Moscow has taken to arms. Moscow is preparing to fight...
...tram traveling 80 miles an hour overtakes another train traveling 60 miles an hour on the same track, is that, I ask you, any kind of a way to run a railroad...
Face. In Peking, a tram conductor taxed a woman with trying to avoid paying her fare. In mortification she dismounted, stretched across the tracks, stopped all traffic for half an hour until she was cajoled away...
...statue was brought to the U. S. by Edith Lutyens, niece of famed English Royal Academician Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens. As Miss Lutyens was on the point of leaving London Sculptor Epstein impulsively put it in her care. It was not even wrapped. Before she got to the boat tram air-raid alarms sounded. "The blitz was quite strong and the guns were cracking off and shrapnel was whizzing about," said Miss Lutyens, describing her flight later. "I was absolutely terrified that it would be hit or have a hand or its head knocked...
...castle just off the Köslin market place. He added municipal cares to his army work, became a military potentate. As sleepy Köslin came to life with martial activity, recruits and war materials pouring in, he had the town councilors substitute busses for their antiquated tram-cars, including late busses for moviegoers. He entertained well and often, guzzling beer in soldier-size quantities. He liked chess and horseback riding as well as motorcycling and engineering. He intervened to save their horses for a few squadrons who were downcast by the cavalry's motorization. The soldiers...