Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gantlet. In Rockville Centre (pop. 20,000), where the tracks run at street level right through the town, Long Island trains for many years have jammed up street traffic at rush hours, have killed nine persons and injured 24 in the past twelve years in grade-crossing accidents. State and railroad, at long last, were building an overpass. While the work was going on, trains were being run, one way at a time, over about 2,000 feet of "gantlet" tracks-with the left rail of the westbound track inside the eastbound rails. (A gantlet eliminates the need...
Paris newspapers were as indignant over the thefts as their readers, but they had to admit that the series of burglaries which had plagued the residents in fashionable Neuilly and the Bois de Boulogne over the past month had been carried out in exquisite style, "avec delicatesse et galanterie," as one paper...
...were coming to Educator Scholl from all over Europe. She had a big new project in mind: a daytime college for 150 students to study journalism, radio, city planning, etc. "Our aim," she explained, "is to send experts into society with a democratically oriented background. German specialists in the past have been too buried in their work to care who or what they were doing it for." The experimental college would be called "The Brother and Sister Scholl University...
...Single Glance. Thus, this week, Benedetto Croce approached his 84th birthday -an age, as he put it, "when a man's life seems a past that he can survey at a single glance." As scholars all over the world well knew, that glance included much...
...Past and projected appropriations for Pick-Sloan run to nearly eight billion dollars...