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Idly discussed to such an extent that it now rests on a par with the weather, the traffic problem will not be solved overnight. Until the appearance of an underground tunnel or more traffic lights, both men and motors will continue to share the same street. No improvement will come from bawling out errant drivers with a public address system; and short of a round trip to Central Square, a heads-up crossing is the best alternative...
...high dune called Kill Devil Hill. They sewed the sateen for the wings on a neighbor's sewing machine. They figured out a way to warp the wings to keep the plane on an even keel (the principle of present-day ailerons). They built the first wind tunnel out of an old starch box, tried hundreds of different wing shapes, found that practically all published data on flying were useless...
...three harassed officials tried in vain to pull the traveler from the luggage rack to which he clung. At last, the carriage was uncoupled and shunted into a tunnel. There, in complete darkness, the adamantine passenger sulked and fumed. Not until the railway officials threatened to shunt his car onto a siding permanently did he finally consent to leave the train and wait for the regular 4:25 to Grantham...
...tunnel is a part of the University steam heating lines, and the temperature there is never below 110. "You can't call that good working conditions in any man's language," Blackmer declared...
...tunnel to the Yard runs from the Winthrop transmitter, through a short section of the dining hall tunnel, under Lowell, and up Linden Street. It consists of a narrow catwalk under Massachusetts Avenue between the top of the subway tunnel and the street, before connecting with the first tuning at Wiggles-worth...