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  • The nearest subway is of course the "Interborough" (West Side) and immediately after the ceremony the lucky couple can run poste haste to the "Battery" and board

    Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises Donald Ogden Stewart 1937

  • The nearest subway is of course the "Interborough" (West Side) and immediately after the ceremony the lucky couple can run poste haste to the "Battery" and board a Lenox Ave. Local.

    Perfect Behavior 1922

  • The New York subway as we know it today was born of the 1940 merger of three separate train lines: the Interborough Rapid Transit, which began in 1904; the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit lines, dating from 1908; and the Independent lines, which opened in 1932.

    When in Helvetica Michael Bierut 2011

  • Shonts was leaving to head the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in New York City, a decision Roosevelt and Stevens knew of in advance and that Roosevelt accepted with none of the fireworks that had attended the Wallace incident.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Shonts was leaving to head the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in New York City, a decision Roosevelt and Stevens knew of in advance and that Roosevelt accepted with none of the fireworks that had attended the Wallace incident.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • Interborough trails will be created and maintained, so that instead of taxis driven by turbaned men waving American flags protesting too much, the means of local transportation will eat apples and have hooves.

    Rebuilding New York, Bush's Way 2001

  • Interborough trails will be created and maintained, so that instead of taxis driven by turbaned men waving American flags protesting too much, the means of local transportation will eat apples and have hooves.

    Rebuilding New York, Bush's Way 2001

  • "Compliments of the Interborough, sir," says the guard.

    Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

  • An hour and a half every day for more than twenty years he had spent in the great underground system of the Interborough.

    The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Down he hurried into the subway station, and dropped his tithe of tribute into the multiple maw of the Interborough.

    The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

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