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...primary system, which today carries 65% of U. S. traffic, is two-lane high way, standard 15 years ago, substandard now. To cure medial friction state highway engineers invented the three-lane road. This proved the most murderous of all roads as drivers fought for the middle lane. Multi-lane roads lessened medial friction, but caused more internal-stream and intersectional crashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Four Frictions | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...year or two it was to prove the most important single development in the printer's art since Gutenberg's invention of movable type more than 400 years before. In making the solid slug of type, Mergenthaler's invention opened the mechanical way for the multi-editioned metropolitan newspaper, the flood of books, pamphlets and magazines on which the 20th Century was floated into being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Linotype at 50 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Special Bulletin (May 26): A new crisis developed late this afternoon in connection with the pump diggings, when a multi-ton truck came blundering along the road and caused the entire excavation to cave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Prospectors Smell Gold as Excavators Seek 30-Foot Pump Well | 5/27/1936 | See Source »

...enough. By and by comes a matronly woman with a school of multi-colored children. A matronly woman came by with some brown and some white and some dirty children. I mean some of them were cute; but one was a brat! She threw stones at me; I mean she actually picked up a rock and let it go for all she was worth; and it hit me behind the ear. Behind the ear it hit me; and then the little sissy ran. I mean she hid behind the matron's skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/20/1936 | See Source »

...seqiumter porcos with a whoop, Multi sunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Misslouala | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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