Word: omnibus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed an omnibus bill carrying pensions for some 200 veterans and widows...
Facile princeps, omnibus praestans...
...CELESTIAL OMNIBUS-E. M. Forster-Knopf ($2.00). Six strange and beautifully written stories by an author whom literary cognoscenti have for some time appraised as one of the most distinctive of modern English writers. A would-be picnic in the chestnut-woods above the Italian village of Ravello results surprisingly in a 14-year-old English boy's encounter with Pan himself- to his great delight and the utter horror of all his relatives and friends. Another youngster discovers that a certain blind alley in London is the stopping-place for a line of celestial omnibuses, conducted by such...
...Congress since the 59th. Of these, 655 were public or general laws and 276 so-called private laws-that is, laws granting pensions, or reimbursing individuals and corporations for losses inflicted by the Government. The number of private laws would have been much greater, but for 22 omnibus pension bills which embodied 2,048 private bills...
With the coming of the steam railroad, the population of the city soon increased and congestion occurred within the three to four mile limit. As soon as this happened the omnibus first, and then the horse-car was evolved to supply the need for cheap horse transit...