Word: vehicular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tunnels. A. C. Fielding and W. P. Yant, gas experts of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, in an extended series of air tests in the new twin Liberty vehicular tunnels to the South Hills of Pittsburgh, have perfected a ventilating system which makes the tunnels safe for human beings with any volume of traffic. A procession of 200 auto trucks was run through the tunnels several times, and samples of air taken in the early tests showed 4½ to 10 parts of carbon monoxide present. Canaries, which are very sensitive to the gas, were released in the tunnels...
Talk about erudite Boston's careful phraseology, "prepayment cars", "leave by the nearer door", and such; how is this from a Newark, New Jersey, sign post?--"VEHICULAR TRAFFIC EXCLUDED FROM THIS DRIVE." --COL. BYGAD...
...observed a prophecy of that kind that did not describe the happy circumstance of movable sidewalks to relieve the human legs of virtually all exertion. The seer of the movement is the fire chief in New York city. He foresees a city in which streets will be free from vehicular traffic, such streets as there are being devoted exclusively to the use of "pedestrains", who will be passengers on moving sidewalks extending from curb to curb...
...Avenue" have reaped their reward. However the University may succeed in educating along other lines, it is certain that in the art of traffic-dodging, the training given is supreme. Anyone emerging from Cambridge alive, with or without parchment letters after his name, is innured to any vehicular terrors that Broadway or Fifth Avenue may have to offer...
...Commencement exercises will be held in the Sever Quadrangle at 10 A. M. The doors will be open from 9.30-10, and holders of tickets will enter the quadrangle by the north and south entrances on Quincy street. The street will be closed to all vehicular traffic from...