Word: busness
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Some American tourist threw from a bus a French Negro, a War veteran, who was touring the battlefields...
During all this furore about speed nothing about efficiency is said. The subway and bus systems of Paris are probably the most efficient in the world. The trains of the Nord-Sud and the Métropolitan, with three double doors on the side of each car, permit rapid exits and entrances. On a certain day, during the busiest hour, the longest stop from the Place Denfert-Rochereau to the Madelaine was only seven seconds...
...time to live and is full of misery"--and they set out to dissipate as much misery as possible. "Time" will solve a problem peculiarly modern, when spare moments are rarer than ever. It will give pre-digested news in a form readily available on the subway or motor bus, where the forty-page daily accomplishes little besides ratting and knocking off one's neighbor...
...Russia, out West, or in the East Indies, but it is in the nearby town of Foxboro, Mass. A prominent citizen has led in a "New Civilization" movement which allows passengers in the busses to pay whatever fare they wish. Each week's deficit on the bus line is so much smaller than the loss of the preceding week that it looks as if the "New Civilization" might soon support itself and extend its activities to other commodities...
...subscribers to the Freshman Red Book who have not yet received their copies may obtain them this morning at Standish C-43 between 9 o'clock and 12, or 2 and 4. RED BOOK BUS...