Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are immense treasures of holiness dispersed here & there-usually in the most unexpected places. . . . Perfection is no longer in the mountains with hermits, in the convents with nuns. It is in the streets, in the banks, in the shops, in the trains and trolleys. Only last week the Roman trolley-car drivers gave a whole of one day's pay to the poor. That means one day of starvation...
...Muse of History, you seem to have a very slight grasp of the historical dialectic. It is difficult for me to understand how a contemporary of the dialectician, Heraclitus of Ephesus, can still think in the static concepts of 19th-Century liberalism. History, Madam, is not a suburban trolley line which stops to accommodate every housewife with bundles in her arms...
...Orleans trolley-car routes actually bear such startling labels as "Desire" and "Cemeteries...
This was the last big weekend for the little boys who scramble for pennies along the trolley route from Yale out to the Bowl. The open trolleys, with raccoon coats and windswept skirts, clinging to the sides, are officially a thing of the past. People just don't take the trouble to pay for their ride, so there'll be shiny new busses by next fall...
...exceptionally large, bald head. He was so deaf that he could study unconcerned while the University band umpahed on the same floor of Hendrie Hall and the Glee Club bellowed "Bulldog" directly below him. While the 1938 hurricane was shredding the elms and overturning New Haven's trolley cars, Professor Huntington worked away on a manuscript; he did not realize what was going on until it was all over. The experience buttressed one of his favorite theories: that the human intellect works best in a changeable, stimulating climate. The professor, 71, an authority on practically everything concerning the human...