Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ekins, who just flew around the world, said he had promised not to comment on conditions in Palestine and India. Then he was given transit visas...
...January and has followed them on road trips this summer, hurried arrangements for improving his grandstand as a result of the Pennant he had just won in his first season as a big-league owner. Delighted with the prospect of another "subway series," New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. promised to double the length of its trains to take care of the 100,000 extra passengers who will use them every afternoon of play...
...from this fast-publicized action, many another commuter tried the same procedure. Some succeeded; some were thrown off. At ticket offices all along the line irate commuters insisted on getting receipts for their money, talked darkly of demanding rebates later. On the third day of the revolt the Transit Commission got a temporary injunction restraining the Long Island from charging more than 2? a mile within the City of New York. Basis of the injunction was the State Railroad Law, which prohibits a road from charging more per mile than its parent company in cities of 1,000,000 population...
...Tennyson, Shakespeare (twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from Dante, Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate; from Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon's funeral oration over Louis Quatorze, Dieu seul est grand; from a "lucid saying" of the Romans, Sic transit gloria mundi. Two he translated for the benefit of his less cultured colleagues...
...started out as a Northwest farmer and lumberjack, bought a Ford in 1916, put it in tip-top shape, ran a one-man, one-car busline. After two years he sold out, drove for a half-dozen bus companies. Since 1929 he has driven for Omaha's Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 21g-mile run between North Platte. Neb. and Cheyenne. Wyo.. one way or the other, six days a week. When passing an oncoming car he sights the road edge over his radiator cap. gets his right-hand tires on the brink of the paving. Three...