Sentence examples for railroad timetables from inspiring English sources
There were walls covered with passports, walls covered with foreign currency, walls covered with railroad timetables for immigrants traveling on to Cleveland or Duluth.
Note well, though, that all numbers are, as the old railroad timetables once admonished, subject to change without notice, because as Mr. Rank observed, "Some agencies still haven't bought".
Jealousy in particular -- and in Proust there is no love without jealousy -- motivates the tortured search to know the hidden recesses of the beloved's life, which, as Swann discovers, can turn even the study of railroad timetables into a poetic and novelistic enterprise.
Few European policymakers on the day of Franz Ferdinand's death understood how railroad timetables would force their hands in the weeks ahead.
"'Few European policymakers on the day of Franz Ferdinand's death understood how railroad timetables would force their hands in the weeks ahead".
There is also enough general uncertainty, centered on a possible war with Iraq and further terrorist attacks, to cause the upbeat predictions to be qualified with phrases evocative of the old railroad timetable admonition that train schedules are subject to change without notice.
By Edward M. Hopkins and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, March 29 , 1947P. 25 A Tuckahoe commuter stopped off at the Transportation Museum in Grand Central last week and noted on exhibition there a N. Y. & Harlem Railroad timetable published in 1848 on which a train was listed as leaving White Plains at 8.35 A. M., and arriving at Tuckahoe at 8 50 - running time 15 minutes.
You should not strive for a railroad-like timetable, but aim for a loose, but nevertheless concrete, plan that clearly outlines the modules.
The three greatest Western novels of the early 20th century all depend on the new timekeeping, from Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" and Andrei Bely's "Petersburg" to James Joyce's "Ulysses," which is set entirely on June 16, 1904, using the railroad clocks and timetables that had recently replaced "God's noon" in Ireland with Greenwich Mean Time in London.
According to UIC 406, there is no single way to define capacity, and the concerns and expectations vary between different points of view by railroad customers, infrastructure and timetable planners, and railroad operators.
In "Here at The New Yorker," Gill recalls that Whitaker's office was flooded with "yellowing newspapers, magazines, and Penn Central timetables and other railroad memorabilia".
