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Word: walks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Completely eluding news gossips who kept marrying him off to other princesses, Leopold would set out from Brussels traveling third class and carrying a small satchel as if going only for a short trip, would arrive at a country station in southeastern Sweden to be met by nobody and walk off with his satchel up to the rambling country house of his prospective Swedish father-in-law. In the nine years of Astrid's married life she gave Belgium three royal children: Princess Josephine Charlotte, now 10; Crown Prince Baudouin, 7; and Prince Albert, 3. Significant of the deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: State Visit | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...situation is this: a student walks across the court. He is hungry, and wishes to reach the dining hall as quickly as possible. He is confronted by a circular grass plot which he must walk around, for a fence prevents him from taking a straight course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Traffic Circle" Compels Bellboys to Hike 13 Extra Miles in Three Years | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...student is forced to go exactly 67 inches out of his way, and his circuitous routs takes him three seconds longer. Going to three meals a day for 240 days, thus making a total of 4,320 trips around the plot in a college year he must walk four miles, 3000 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Traffic Circle" Compels Bellboys to Hike 13 Extra Miles in Three Years | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

Equally disastrous for those who "crack" Widener many times during the year are the turnstiles at the entrance. Instead of being able to walk straight in to the library entrance hall, the student finds that the "entrance" turnstiles are to the right and left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Traffic Circle" Compels Bellboys to Hike 13 Extra Miles in Three Years | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...Will he walk around the grass plot as a decent citizen should, upholding his moral fortitude, but flunking, or will he take the criminal short cut, reaching the exam just in time? A question indeed, but should he flunk, Harvard architecture will have claimed another victim

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Traffic Circle" Compels Bellboys to Hike 13 Extra Miles in Three Years | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

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