Word: transition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dever's campaign also involves the tricky Massachusetts Transit Authority question. He has accused the MTA--and Bradford--of hiding a $9,000,000 deficit and of jacking up fares. Dever says the Republicans have failed to supply the Commonwealth with cheap water power. Referenda 5, 6, and 7, the labor bills, are pet peeves of Dever, and he has criticized the Governor's support of a 2 percent sales...
...Riding home in my 'present car,' which the Rapid Transit System undoubtedly purchased years before I was born, I read the second paragraph [about the typical TIME-reading man], looked down at one of my two summer suits (a greasy pair of overalls) and then read on, looking hopefully for exceptions. I found none. Nevertheless, I hung on my strap and continued reading TIME, as I have been doing for years...
...banks of the wide Taling River. Here the Communist line ends. On the river's opposite shore Nationalists stand guard. Whoever tries to wade, swim or boat across will be shot. This is a precaution against possible over-water attack by disguised Communists. The only unmolested transit is by way of the blasted railway bridge, a fearful half mile catwalk of twisted girders...
...hope of overcoming a $52 million transit operating deficit, New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer...
First the doctors invented a new instrument, which they called a stereo-encephalotome. It is about a foot high, and looks like a surveyor's transit; its four legs are mounted on a ring fixed to the patient's skull by a plaster cast. At the top is a hollow needle containing a fine electric wire. X-ray pictures are taken to establish the exact position of the thalamus; the legs of the instrument are adjusted to place the needle exactly over it. The patient is anesthetized, and a piece of bone directly under the needle...