Word: riding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Travelers who have had occasion to ride both divisions may have noticed a marked difference in the service and equipment on such trains as the Twentieth Century, Wolverine, North Shore; that when they are on the Boston section of these trains sometimes there are no magazines in the Club Car, terminal stops (Buffalo, Albany) are unusually long, sleeping cars are not up-to-date, washrooms are inconveniently small and many other evidences that the world-famous luxury of the same New York-Chicago trains is not upheld for the New England patronage...
...simulates alcoholic intoxication two eminent Englishmen, John Scott Haldane, 69, honorary professor and director of Birmingham University Mining Research Laboratory, and Leonard Erskine Hill, 63, famed physiologist, recently saved a hapless Englishman from gaol. The fellow and two friends had drunk some beer before he took them for a ride in his closed motor car. The car bogged in a pool of water. Trying to pull out, he raced his motor for about 15 minutes, when he became drowsy. A constable came along to scold. He smelled the driver's sour breath, arrested him for driving while inebriated...
...profitable sojourn was made at the Research Station of the United Fruit Co. at Siquirres in the hot lowlands. Daily trips into the jungle yielded many species of varying plant types, and presented conditions strikingly at variance to those of the highlands. Recently, a three hour horse-back ride from a point outside of San Jose took the party to particularly abundant collecting grounds on Los Cerros de Zurqui. These three, small peaks, to the east of Mt. Barba, offer fine panoramas of the great Central Valley, a thousand feet below: Despite limited time, quantities of specimens, especially rich...
Pittsburgh would feel the heat and be tired from the ride, and who was Pittsburgh, anyway? In their nine straight victories this year they had not played the kind of stuff that was on Southern California's schedule. So figured Californians, more confident than ever when they felt the blaze of sunlight in the Rose Bowl. Every seat had been said for weeks. A whistle pricked the piled heat, and a minute later trim, curly-haired, squat Toby Uansa of Pittsburgh jumped through left tackle, snaked 68 yards. His wits spun after the tackle and he played...