Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last half-hour. The Bowl is located a mile and a half from the centre of the city so that it will take nearly an hour to reach the field, as traffic will be much slower than usual. This will tax the transportation facilities on railroad and trolley lines to the limit. Entrance to the Bowl is designated on each ticket by the portal number and everyone should make sure that he enters by the portal indicated...
Students will soon be actually playing tennis on Sunday; clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light...
...charge from the Commonwealth Armory to Forest Hills. Soon after leaving the armory the horse broke into a dead run, the rest of the party not realizing, however, that Savage's mount was running away until he was several blocks distant. Near the corner of Brookline street a trolley car is alleged to have struck the horse, killing the animal instantly and throwing the rider to the ground. The latter was immediately conveyed to a nearby firehouse, where first aid was administered and an ambulance telephoned for, which took him to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital near the Medical School...
...Regimental Band's most lusty bugler. Shortly thereafter the parade will form and after a general trip around the Yard, led by the entire Regimental Band and the Class Goat, will converge towards Harvard square, where a half-dozen of the Boston Elevated Company's fastest trolley cars will be waiting to receive the throng. Before the cars are boarded, however, every Senior must pass in review before the camera...
Trains leave the North Station at 12.25 and 1.40 for Wakefield. At Wakefield take the trolley marked "Reading," but make sure that it goes to the range: not all cars so marked do. All men who can do so should plan to get the early train so that the shooting can begin at 1.30 sharp...