Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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School Daze. In Middletown, Ohio, Bob Boring, convicted of reckless driving, was ordered to attend four sessions of an auto school as part of the sentence, was arrested when he ran down a pedestrian while driving to his third class...
...antiquated concept of law, pedestrians in this state now have a prior right to the highway," according to Robert S. Kretschmar, Massachusetts director of the AAA and originator of one of the bills. "The motorist and the pedestrian should have equal responsibility," he added...
...University asked the MDC to build the bridge more than a year ago, "because with the widening and improving of Soldiers Field Road and the resulting increased speeds of automobiles there, the danger of pedestrian accidents was becoming greater," Clifford A. Foster, Assistant Dean of the Business School, said. "Although there have been no accidents yet, the MDC saw the danger, and decided to build the bridge," he added...
...sketched rapidly, Delacroix spent eight months in preliminary studies for a single painting, The Massacre at Scio. In many ways, he approached painting itself as a great performer approaches music; he believed that only endless practice prepares the artist for the grand performance when he must soar above pedestrian problems of technique. He was in continual revolt against the neoclassic manner that Ingres had inherited from Napoleon's court painter. David. To find a counterbalance, Delacroix went back to Rubens' tumultuous, baroque style. A cold, diffident man in private life, he drew his inspiration from music, or from...
...their annual convention in San Francisco, members of the California Academy of General Practice condemned the accident hazards built into the modern automobile. When a car hits a pedestrian, said the doctors, it is frequently the unnecessary adornments near the front of the car that maim and kill: "masticating grills, avulsive door handles, knife-edge eyebrows over headlights and spearlike hood ornaments." The doctors also called for the abolition of bumpers (including the bosom-like projections known as "Dagmars") and for recessed and padded dashboards, collapsible steering columns, safety belts, safety doors and a legal limit on horsepower...