bollards, bolsters, who cares?

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Tue May 8 21:23:20 UTC 2007


NYT op-ed piece by Colum McCann, 5/8/07:

My children might ask me about the complexities of SWAT teams on Wall
Street, or why there are traffic bolsters around the synagogue on
East 87th Street, or why...

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the only relevant google hit on "traffic bolsters".

"traffic bollards", on the other hand, gets over 20k.

arnold

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