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Word: subways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven Harvard Liberals and two Radcliffe New Dealers take the subway this morning for James M. Curley's headquarters at 333 Washington Street, Boston, where they will attempt to persuade him to take a specific New Deal platform and push it through the Democratic State Convention which meets this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Pressure Group Hopes to Persuade Curley To Push Forward a Specific New Deal Platform | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

...secured as Professor, and some time in the summer of 1638 he moved to Cambridge and received the first Freshmen. The site of this earliest college building, now covered by Massachusetts Avenue, is in front of the west end of Wigglesworth Hall. Its foundations were uncovered when the Cambridge subway was excavated, and their corners are marked in the street paving by two L-shaped rows of red brick. Behind the house, in the former cow-yard, which as early as 1638 was called the College Yard, Professor Eaton set out apple trees, and surrounded them by a high fence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison, Harvard Historian, Tells Story of College's First Class | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...elaborate plan to extend the Cambridge-Dorchester subway beyond its present terminus in Harvard square to the North Cambridge carbarns two miles off was put before the City Council by Mayor John W. Lyons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Subway May Be Extended Two Miles | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...colors. Doctors were required to register their vacation addresses with the police. Hundreds of private motor vehicles were rented or requisitioned and all German farm horses which had completed their harvest work were conscripted by the army. Non-military building projects as important as Munich's new subway were virtually suspended. If this was not mobilization, the French had no other name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ready | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...framework of his philosophy is simple: Man, he says, is a product of his environment, and environment is "95% a shelter problem." Nine Chains to the Moon begins with a description of a modern city dweller, the unfortunate Mr. Murphy, jostled in the subway, unnerved by noise, threatened with peptic ulcer, bolting his meals, quarreling with his wife, depressed by the incessant pressure of city noises great and small, bewildered at the contrast between his efficient radio and his inefficient, cockroach-breeding house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dymaxion Utopia | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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