Word: highways
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...side; there is still a chance, however, for the real humorist of the automobile to show us the conflict between the irate pedestrian and horseman who madly curses all drivers of cars as predatory rich and as pirates, and the wild honk-honk man who whirls from the highway all who do not drive sixty-horse power machines... The punctured tire, the wayside repairs before a humerous audience, the superior man who gives advice, and all the other things of which an automobilist dreams are left untouched; perhaps we may get, a sufficient compensation in the really humorous picture...
...known through him; leave off his geology and he was still a marked man, a striking figure, the centre of every group he joined. He was so many other things besides being a geologist and a professor; he served on the Massachusetts topographical survey commission, on the state highway commission, on the gypsy moth commission; he was actively interested in mining enterprises in the South and West; he wrote books and magazine articles on many subjects; he was a practical, influential, honest politician. His originality showed in his frequent use of words rarely heard from the mouths of others...
...cities of Boston and Cambridge are authorized to rebuild the bridge across the Charles river in the line of North Harvard street in Boston, and of Boylston street in Cambridge, the new structure to be known as "Soldiers Field Bridge." Under the act, a temporary highway bridge may be put up, to be used by vehicles and pedestrians during the construction of the new bridge, or the present one may be used for that purpose...
...enough to withstand all tides and sufficiently high to maintain in the basin above a permanent water level not less than eight feet above Boston base. The top of the dam is to be at least 100 feet in width, part of this space being set aside for a highway. Provision is also made for a large lock connecting the two levels of the river...
...action of the Board of Survey places an encumbrance upon the property affected, for the bounds of the highway are absolutely determined by this official decision of the Board. No improvements can be made upon the property along the street which will subject the city to any additional liabilities over those which would be incurred if the city condemned the land at once...