Word: auto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every speeder his own judge " is the novel means which the Swedish Riksdag, with the help of inventors, has adopted to curb reckless auto-mobiling. Experiments are being conducted with a new recording speedometer which is to indicate not only the number of miles a car has run, but also the rate of speed during any part of the trip. Despite the fact that no recording speedometer has been perfected, the new law makes it compulsory for every car to carry one. This automatic evidence will both acquit the innocent and convict the guilty...
...psychoanalytic, auto-suggestive note was carried through the entire number, even to the joke department, in which appeared...
...Conference. The former, via the Boston and Maine railroad and the Rutland railroad, is a day trip. The train leaves the North Station at 7.45 in the morning and reaches Ticonderoga at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The trip is made from Ticonderoga to Silver Bay by auto. This route, which is strongly recommended, costs only $14.84 for a round trip ticket from Boston, including the auto fare to and from Ticonderoga and Silver...
...general, the Association is optimistic as to business conditions this fall, and sees especially good prospects for the auto, building, drug, food, iron and other industries. The position of the Association has not changed regarding the issue of the " open shop," which it has advocated for several years...
...publisher (TIME, April 7), is attracting world-wide attention. Since the offer was made public, January 2, 1922, in a letter to Sir Arthur Currie, President of McGill University, more than 3,000 claims of cures have been submitted from 40 different nations. Some 400 are from faith healers, auto-suggestionists and other brands of fanatics. Of the others, many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with bloodroot an easy first. Red clover chopped fine, a diet of snails and mud baths have their...