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Definition of Subways
1. subway [v] - See also: subway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subways
Literary usage of Subways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Municipal franchises: a description of the terms and conditions upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1911)
"Provisions for subways in the Chicago traction ordinances.—Chicago has maintained
for a great many years certain tunnels under the Chicago river. ..."
2. A Treatise on Electric Law: Comprising the Law Governing All Electric by Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce (1907)
"Cases arising under New York subways Acts — 43 la. People v. Squire. 423. ...
subways — Occupation of space in — Refusal to pay rent for. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"There have been placed in the subways 10.150 miles of telephone and telegraph
wire and ... There are in the subways—telephone, telegraph, and electric-light ..."
4. Electrical Engineer (1891)
"Not over one-tenth of the streets have subways constructed, and at the rate of
those constructed it would take 60000000dols. to extend them throughout the ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1890)
"Wires when in the subways during the prevalence of sleet storms, etc., ...
GAS IN THE subways. In my opinion the presence of gas is the most serious defect ..."
6. The Constitution and Government of the State of New York: An Appraisal by New York (State). (1915)
"The State Should Not Construct City Owned subways The principle of home rule is
directly related to the question of jurisdiction of the public service ..."
7. The Law of Operations Preliminary to Construction in Engineering and ...by John Cassan Wait by John Cassan Wait (1900)
"Rights of Way for subways and Underground Conduits. ... Such subways are those
for gas and electricity (and possibly oil) available or employed to light the ..."
8. Modern Tunnel Practice: Illustrated by Examples Taken from Actual Recent by David McNeely Stauffer (1906)
"subways, or railways of this type, are comparatively very modern in their application.
... subways are constructed both in tunnels and in open cuts; ..."
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