Word: vias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from 2 o'clock until 3 o'clock, and at the end of the game from 4.45 until 5.45 o'clock, the Cottage Farm Bridge will be "one way" going towards Boston and the Temporary Bridge "one way" going towards Cambridge. Automobiles coming from Waltham and Watertown should come via North Beacon Street to Market Street to the Speedway...
Taxis and other automobiles which do not park, if coming from Brighton, may unload their passengers at the corner of North Harvard Street on Western Avenue about two hundred feet from Gate No. 8. If coming via Cambridge by the Parkway from Boston they will be required to unload and turn at DeWolfe Square on the Parkway about 300 yards below the Anderson Bridge on the Cambridge side...
...name of all that was printable, why had Mr. Coolidge wrought this evil upon them- given his best interview of all time, not to one of their number, but to an angelic interloper from another estate? An interloper who had then sold his treasure to their newspapers, via the Associated Press! Through ever-ready Secretary Everett Sanders, President Coolidge made answer as best he could to the "boys" (as Washington correspondents have delighted in being called since the blustery days of Roosevelt). He used up only half a sheet of letter-paper and signed his name. The wording of this...
Late in August, Digger Gilbert T. Brewer returned from a trip down the Mississippi Valley, to Mexico City and South America via Panama, with extensive evidence of Norse expeditions having penetrated this continent thoroughly in pre-Columbus days. Some of Mr. Brewer's evidence: 1) Indian legends of huge serpents appearing on Lake Ontario. (Norse war galleys had low hulls, dragon prows, the sides hung with shields, like scales. 2) An Indian legend of a chief battling a serpent, slaying him and wearing his skin. (The Norsemen wore coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization...
...virtual exclusion of the minor traits and actions by which an individual emerges from a type. The degeneracy of Daniel Pardway's issue-Gene into "a lout among gentleman, a gentleman among louts;" Bert into a floorwalker and window-dresser; Phoebe into a dreamy sadist, via sex-starvation; Freddie into a Princeton fop, proud wastrel and frayed dope fiend-seems mechanical, arbitrary. Like their father, the reader sees little of these children until it is time for them to appear in bars and brothels. Their Presbyterian mother dies young and their worldy-wise Kentucky step-mother is taken...