Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Special buses will run to and from Boston Latin and Boston English to transport students on the day of the game...
Syntax Soldier. The shelling was an ominous interlude in the Vice President's three-day swing through South VietNam, a tour of syntax soldiering that found Humphrey at his ebullient best. Traveling by armed Huey helicopter, C-118 transport, Jeep, limousine and shanks' mare, the Vice President-who bore the code name Northwest-coursed from the Delta to the Demilitarized Zone on a threefold mission...
...Delta, to pass out Purple Hearts and news from home. "Who won the Minne sota-Michigan game?" asked a Minnesota sailor. "We took them 20 to 15," grinned Old Gopher Humphrey. Jetting up to Phu Bai, a small Marine outpost near the embattled DMZ, he boarded a transport plane for a look at Con Thien and Dong Ha. Circling at 1,500 feet, he Watched Marine artillery fire slam the Communist positions hidden among the craters ("Just like Minnesota," he said, pointing to the thousands of rain-filled shell holes), then landed at Danang for an afternoon of pep talks...
...unusual, therefore, to find that the man collecting your bus fare not only has a high school diploma but also a college degree, or even a Ph.D. A recent issue of the British magazine, The Economist,indignantly addressed itself to the Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle: "How many colored people drive buses in London?" it asked. "And how many are employed as bus inspectors?" The answer: very many for the first question, none for the second. "This is unforgiveable," The Economist says. "Mrs. Castle, please wake...
Liquid oxygen (LOX) is used as an oxidizer in rocket engines and in steel production. Liquid hydrogen has been proposed as the fuel for the supersonic transport and as the propellant in a nuclear rocket. In bubble chambers, it allows scientists to trace the path of sub-atomic particles. Gas companies are liquefying natural gas for more convenient and economical storage, and liquid nitrogen is now used to freeze the earth around excavations so that mud will not slide into the work area...