Word: overpasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inertial Barrier System is designed to reduce damage from head-on collisions with fixed objects along the highway. Its principle is well known to operators of beach buggies: soft sand slows a vehicle down. In this system, large plastic drums of sand are grouped in front of bridge abutments, overpass piers, large sign stanchions and similar highway danger points. The drums break when hit by a speeding vehicle, absorbing much of the impact and scattering sand beneath the wheels to slow it further. Cheap and easy to install and replace, the Inertial Barrier System was invented by John Fitch...
...issue now are the tactics from the last bust. Some students dropped a heavy potted tree from an overpass onto parked police cars and then finished off the windshield with bricks. Many windows in administration and classroom buildings were broken. Two fires were started, one destroying ten year's research of a man who had spoken against SDS policies...
...lights illuminate only the touch football fields in front of the Houses and leave the Weeks Bridge-Storrow Drive Overpass area in near darkness...
Some time ago the University asked the MDC to put more spotlights on the existing light-posts at the ends of the bridge and the overpass. But the new lamps have been installed...
...excavations of Elea, Napoli unearthed the arch in a high promontory that cut the old city in half. Built of reddish brown stone, measuring 20 ft. 2 in. high, 8 ft. 10 in. wide at the base and 20 ft. deep, the curving stone construction apparently held up an overpass on the road between the two parts of town. After months of careful analysis, Napoli only recently became convinced that it was Greek, and that the settlers who built it must have learned arch making in their former home in Asia Minor. The arch could not have been Etruscan: those...