Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Footnote on p. 14 issue of July 24 asks: "Could mules, long trained to walk only between the cotton rows, be driven atop the beds to pull a plow there...
...average mule would take great pleasure in walking on the "bed" or row should he find his driver wanted him to walk elsewhere. However it would be impractical and unnecessary to drive friend mule atop the bed to plow up surplus cotton...
...piano." No one may smoke in Dr. Wilson's office. As long as he is there he works "like the devil" until he gets "the jitters," which happens every month or so. Then he and his wife hie off to some quiet place where he can sleep, walk and read "something with no relation to osteopathy...
...were not for the Charles, Harvard would lie cramped between an ugly industrial city bristling with smoke-stacks and neon signs, and the cool green lawns of Brattle Street. If there were no river, men would grow vicious with no place to walk, and they would sit in smoke-filled rooms and dart like angry wasps at each other buzzing invective in ever-changing patterns. Under the blanket of heat that descends over the steeples and towers of Cambridge in the afternoon, the Charles sleeps while agile youths flit on the mirrored surface like water-spiders...
...worked sorrow and pleasure. In the fall when Cambridge twilight's are a smoky blue, white-shirted harriers jog along the winding course to Watertwon and back, while men in shells pump up and down like regulated pistons. When Dartmouth comes to town, girls in bright colors walk over the bridge, heels clicking on the walk like little hammers. When there is something shining and invisible in the air over the Stadium, the Vegabond feels as if he were walking on tiptoe. In the gray winter twilight there is the ring of steel on ice and urchins skating, and when...