Word: highways
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Massachusetts Highway Commission requests motorists to remember that on the days of football games the roads are crowded, and that therefore especial care must be exercised. All operators of automobiles are asked to allow sufficient time so that they will not have to take any chances and to anticipate delays caused by the excess of traffic...
...real nature of the ardent request filed by the Yale News, if its editors could only have known it? It was in fact an appeal for a Short-Cut to Knowledge. As wiser heads know, there is no such detour. The path of the regular curriculum is the one highway leading to the real Castle of Comprehension, if it leads anywhere at all. The students say they want the road. Cannot they be made to see what that way is by the guidance of the discussion groups? --Boston Transcript...
...local needs. To supplement the work of the resident agent, Premier Bordon has made several unpresaged but important visits to the United States for the correlation of our war activities, which must make more effective the movement of our united resources of men and supplies across a common ocean highway against a common enemy...
James Linn Weber, professor of English at the University of Chicago, who believes he has read and corrected enough composition papers to construct a great white highway from Princeton to New York, makes several interesting comments in the New Republic on the college undergraduate...
...admired. It is true that Mr. Browdy's "Midnight Supper" contains a conventional O. Henry opening and some unskillful traces of Mr. Hardy in its stilted stage directions ("Had there not been something peculiarly ingratiating about this man, I should have maintained my custom of refusing these highway requests at all times. As it was, I stopped to argue with him,") which are inconsistent with the general style and plot. But the piece breaks into splendid originality in two speeches of Tom Gowan, the lovelorn murderer, and in the conclusion, which is far better than either the sentimentalism...