Word: transitional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporters, Mayor Walker said, as he drew near to New York, "I studied housing, hospitals, water-supply and transit. . . . I never had time to ride on the subways. I always wanted to, but there was always something else going on. . . . The funniest thing that happened to me abroad was the most pathetic. For two weeks I've been refusing good drinks." "How often?" asked incredulous newsgatherers. "Continuously." "Why?" "Hell," said the Mayor of New York, "you spoil it by asking why. I was sick!" Later the Mayor of New York said: "The greatest thrill of my life was when...
...Rapid Transit. From Lajos N. Egri, Hungarian, ten years resident in the U. S., Horace Liveright bought a play. Since many a Hungarian writes at least one play, this is not remarkable. Since the Provincetown Playhouse, where Rapid Transit is presented, is a tiny place, it is remarkable that the production actually came off. For it employs a cast of almost 70 persons, all racing about in the throes of excitement and confusion incidental to this iron age. The furor is the result of bungling man's efforts to adjust his life, political organization, education, to the whizzing circle...
There are "low temperature effects on plants," of which Dr. Rodney Beecher Harvey of the University of Minnesota is a connoisseur. He will go to England and Russia and demonstrate how a carload of green fruit can be ripened in transit with 40 cents' worth of ethylene...
...years ago, his brother two years later, in Wooster, Ohio. Denied extensive education, they sold newspapers, saved, moved to Cleveland, worked as office boys, saved more. Borrowing, they purchased a wooded tract near Cleveland, pronounced it the future residence district. Borrowing more, they made their land accessible by rapid transit, bought more land. They still buy. Twelve square miles of residence property (homes worth $25,000 or more) have been or are being developed through their office. Their practice in talking sparingly, pointedly with Cleveland bankers has made it easier for them when they venture to New York. Neither...
...loss and expense of its operations will be paid by an equalization fee. This fee will be collected (in transit and in other points) as an internal tax on every unit of the crop in question? bushel, bale or pound...