Word: viaduct
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...Citians themselves. They are aware of their slums and stockyards as well as of their elm-shaded streets and comfortable homes. The city is self-conscious about its culture and somewhat nostalgic about its hell-raising past, and looks down its nose at drab Kansas City, Kansas "across the viaduct." Only 225 miles from the geographical center of the U.S., it has the drive of the East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West. It annually holds the famed American Royal Livestock and Horse Show, sends steaks to half...
...among the houses, The viaduct below, Stood the Coffee Essence Factory Of Robinson...
...where he has continued to turn out books, witty poems, and anchovy toast for Sunday tea. Discussing his impending New Testament translation with some undergraduates, Monsignor Knox was asked: "When it is published will it say on the title page, 'Translated by R. A. Knox, author of The Viaduct Murder...
Three days after the battle's beginning, picked U.S. bombardiers blew a 4O-ft. hole in the Avisio rail viaduct on the Brenner Pass line. Presumably the 75 daily trainloads of supplies which the Nazis had been sending into Italy over this key route would be stopped, at least temporarily...
Last month, curious Chicagoans saw this dream monster in broad daylight. Fathered by the Armour Institute of Technology, of which Dr. Poulter is a scientific director, whelped by the Pullman works and christened Penguin I, it bumbled through the streets on a test run, got stuck under a viaduct. Extricated, it waddled off two days later for Boston at a speed of 10 m.p.h., sometimes less, paused to nose a truck in Columbia City, Ind., slithered off the highway into Mrs. Cleo Watkin's cow pasture near Gomer, Ohio, and came to rest with its nose in a drainage...