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Word: thruways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Traffic on the Pulaski Skyway-New Jersey's elevated high speed automobile thruway to Manhattan-was jammed into a honking, mile-long tangle by a mule named Devil's Brother. When the cops arrived, they found pans, bundles and other impedimenta from the mule's pack scattered over the highway, and the beast itself engaged in a tug of war with Owner Clarence Hornbeck, a cadaverous, 58-year-old man in a tall silk hat. Hornbeck's explanation: he had bet some friends in Galesburg, Ill. that he could walk the mule to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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