Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is, however, no little room for doubt about the interest taken in the conflict among the Irish themselves. On Monday all Dublin joined in a one-day strike as a demonstration against the spirit of militarism,--not a trolley car was moved, not a newspaper printed. In fact it might have been an Old Testament Sabbath from all accounts, save for the crowds in the streets. Furthermore, the response to an appeal from the Irish Bishops for a popular demand for the treaty has elicited little response, apparently because of the cloud of fear which is over the whole...
...Engineering Society will hold a meeting in the form of a smoker this evening at 8 o'clock in Pierce 110. Mr. Edward Dana, General Manager of the Boston Elevated, will speak on "Problems of Subway and Trolley Service or Why is a Strap Hanger--the Other Side of the Case...
...long trolley ride to the Boston Y. M. C. A. and the difficulties encountered in practice once on the scene, are formidable obstacles to a successful performance on the part of the squad. Comparison with Yale's magnificent Carnegie Pool is ludicrous. Other colleges, regardless of their size, recognize the importance of swimming, and possess pools of their own. Brown and Columbia Universities require a test of proficiency in the water to secure a degree. Harvard stands alone in its apathy...
...such remote scientific knowledge, as the special problem just mentioned has established, be of any practical use? Who can tell? Many years elapsed before Faraday's electrical experiments bore fruit in a practical electric lighting system and in the trolley car. The laws of nature can not be intelligently applied until they are understood. To understand them, however, many experiments bearing upon the fundamental nature of things must be made, and the unknown laws underlying the nature of elements are among the most fundamental of these laws of nature...