Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, a large, gray tomcat, "snapping and spitting as the result of an overdose of catnip," chased pedestrians, trolley cars, automobiles, was finally cornered by a patrolman in a cigar store telephone booth...
...Cambridge Street, directly behind Holworthy Hall, E. S. Robinson '26, crossing from Hemenway Gymnasium at about noon yesterday, stepped out behind a passing trolley-car directly into the path of a large milk truck. He was knocked down before the driver of the truck could throw on his brakes. Bystanders picked him up unconscious, but he had revived sufficiently, when he had been taken to the Stillman Infirmary, to walk from the car into the Infirmary...
Several students narrowly escaped injury yesterday afternoon when a wire falling from a telegraph pole across the trolley line on Broadway opposite Memorial Hall showered sparks in all directions. Traffic was effectually tied up for more than fifteen minutes, until a group of motormen policemen and students succeeded in fastening the hanging wire, and holding it until the repairing wire, and holding it until the repair truck from the track from the traction company arrived...
Borrowing a friend's automobile, he bucks traffic at Philadelphia's busiest corner. Result: one broken arm for a traffic officer, one damaged trolley car, one bent automobile, one gash on the brow for the showoff, one fine of $1,000 for his relatives to pay. "That's the law for you!" he comments. Reverses of fortune and a good lecture from a sister-in-law render him unabashed. At the end the author makes the show-off partly instrumental in bringing a fortune to the family...
...suggested innovation involves the stretching of trolley cables across the top of the stadium from one colonnade to the other, to which the canvas would be attached. The canvas would be arranged so that it could be raised and lowered easily. It would thus, according to Major Moore, serve a triple purpose. First, it would render unnecessary the hay which is spread over the field every night in the closing weeks of the season. Second, it could be raised high enough to make it possible for practice to be held under its shelter on a rainy day. Finally, and perhaps...