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Word: tunnel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coincidence. At ten minutes past 2 p.m., a railway repairman found Karpe's mangled, 'dismembered body scattered along the track in Lueg Pass tunnel, not far out of Salzburg. Had he fallen or had he been thrown from the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Murder on the Express? | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...said that they found no specific evidence of "foul play." On the other hand, U.S. Intelligence officers thought that it was murder. By coincidence, the Arlberg-Orient had made an unscheduled half-hour stop, to permit traffic to clear, at the village of Goiling, just three minutes from Lueg tunnel. Passengers had opened doors and stepped down to stroll and smoke on both sides of the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Murder on the Express? | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...rattling off through the suburban towns along the south shore of Long Island, headed west for Manhattan. A little after 10 p.m., 38 miles away, Train No. 192 left the Long Island Rail Road's dingy underground terminal in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, clattered through the tunnel under the East River and headed east. In the two electric trains, their lives converging noisily at a speed of 50 m.p.h., were some 1,000 passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Late Train Home | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Joyously, Asiak complied by combing her hair with a fish spine and rubbing melted blubber all over her face. But the Eskimos still had the visiting anthropologist wrong. When Ernenek showed signs of leaving and Asiak made signs of seduction, the visitor dived for the tunnel. Enraged Hunter Ernenek hauled him back by the seat of his pants. "How dare you so insult a man?" roared Ernenek, and bashed out the anthropologist's brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Bears & Men | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...have a camel here that no one remembers, also a monument commemorating the first tunnel through the Alps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Illustrious Unknown | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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