Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First week's results: average driving speed reduced 10 m. p. h., only one minor accident.
¶That busy Spaniard, suffering no permanent hurt from the airplane accident he was in last spring in Trinidad (TIME, April 20), had arrived during the fortnight from a South American tour, had flown to Detroit, then back to Manhattan to open the summer season at the Lewisohn Stadium. Iturbi...
Thus it was that, in the first case by good management, in the second by accident, the two strongest candidates were unanimously placed on the Republican ticket, a political believe-it-or-not. There were those who still thought that eloquent Mr. Vandenberg would have made a better first mate...
The tune of Three Blind Mice became paired with Oh! Susanna as a major overtone of 1936 only by accident. The rhythm of Senator Steiwer's keynote phrase, "Three long years!" automatically evoked the old nursery jingle. Prompt to answer the Republican parody were Democratic versions recalling the twelve...
In New York City alone there are 41,470 elevators-more than the total on any continent except North America. Every day they travel 100,000 miles, lift and lower 15,000,000 passengers-twice the number carried by all other New York transport systems combined. Very rarely there is...