Word: walks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They also state that Londoners walk faster than New Yorkers. Figures for New York: Broadway, average pace two and three-quarters to three miles per hour; Fifth Avenue, two and a half to three miles per hour. London: Strand and Oxford Street, three and three-quarters miles per hour...
...must be pointed out that the Strand is something like half the width of Broadway and that (due to the crowd) a sharp walk of three and three-quarter miles per hour is even a shade more than improbable. In Threadneedle Street, in the city, it can be said that the people, who swarm like ants, go faster than the presumptive vehicles that dare transgress its sanctity. In England all fares are paid according to distance; taxis are cheaper than in New York...
...first four innings Captain Owen held his opponents to three hits and no runs, but in the fifth, Providence began to find the ball, a walk, a single, and a home run by Feid bringing in three runs. Coach Slattery then put in Bemis, who allowed six hits and two runs during the remainder of the game...
IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS Chauncey M. Depew: " Charles W. Adams of Boston, 90, challenged me to a 15-mile walk. Said I (who am 89): ' The reason I am healthy is because I refuse to do stunts like that...
...There have been radical changes in prison conditions during the last century", said Warden Hendry of the Massachusetts State Prison in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "No longer are prisoners bolted to walls in their cells, made to walk lock step with a ball and chain around their foot, or fed on bread and water and forced to live in a dungeon. The life of a prison inmate today corresponds to average everyday life with of course necessary restrictions...