Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parking facilities would be provided at North Cambridge, and the trackless trolley line running along Massachusetts Ave. eliminated with the proposed $20 million extension...
Lenthall hoped that work on the underground extension could start in July, when Massachusetts Ave. is scheduled to be widened. Under plans drawn by the Department of Public Works, the street will be widened six feet on each side. A five foot safety island will be added and unused trolley tracks removed...
...process of disintegration, Zhivago devolves from a respected physician and devoted poet to a tired, beaten man who dies of a heart attack on a Moscow trolley-car. And that disintegration cannon be ascribed solely to the disruptive political system which surrounds him, to the "inscrutability of universal chaos...
...ironic token of the complete reversal of the social hourglass, he lives with the daughter of his former porter. He is mocked and ridiculed. A kind of Suffering Servant, he does odd chores for his neighbors. One morning, in a Moscow trolley, he feels suffocated, tugs vainly at the window for a breath of air and dies short minutes later of a heart attack-buried alive, as the first-page parable foretold, for lack of the vital air of freedom...
Another Annex cyclist suffered a head cut and possibly a mild concussion just after 1 p.m. when her bicycle skidded on Massachusetts Avenue near Waterhouse Street. Lola M. Lloyd '62, who was knocked unconscious for a few minutes, said afterwards, "I don't know whether I slipped on a trolley track or was hit by a car; but I think my wheel just got caught in a wet track...