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...pedestrian would use, or a more expensive underpass which would be no more popular, are two possible solutions. Short of portly policemen behind loudspeakers, the most sensible way to reduce the perils seems to be the installation of two sets of traffic lights or officers, one at the junction of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets and another at the corner in front of Lehman Hall. A shift in location of the Lehman Hall taxi stand, or at least a decrease in its size, might also make the pedestrian's lot a happier...
Where was elusive Chen Yi headed? Weary Nationalists ticked off some of his possible alternatives. He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow. Or he might plunge toward Suchow, bastion of the Nanking-Shanghai defense area. Or he could drive down to Hankow. He might even decide to stand and fight...
...Hugh Linstead in a letter to the Times next day: "Have we now reached the stage when no one in authority dare say 'carry on' if a meteorologist says it is going to rain?" Brigade HQ countered apologetically: "There were storms-there was a cloudburst over Clapham Junction [four miles away]." Britons felt cheated. Blimped the father of one subaltern: "Dammit, the Guards never run-nor do their uniforms...
Frontier Town. Brazil-born son of a British missionary, Dr. Jim settled in Anapolis, he says, "because it just couldn't go any place but forward." It was a junction point for mule trains then, had "only two simple streets and a dozen houses." Fanstone was the first to practice surgery in the region; until then, appendicitis was known as "knotted bowels" and you "either got well or died by yourself." He brought in the first X-ray machine, the first elevator; his six-story hospital was the first skyscraper...
When Duluth's temperature last week dropped to 25° below zero, it was thus saluted by a warm-blooded oldster, Manhattan Wit Franklin P. Adams. Temperatures were even lower elsewhere in the U.S.: at Montpelier Junction, Vt. it was 45° below, and Gordon, Wis. was almost paralyzed at 54° below. Most of the U.S., from the Rockies to the Atlantic and south to Texas, Louisiana and Florida, felt the severest cold of an extremely severe winter...