Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enough is enough!" declared Chief Leahy, of the Cambridge Police. "I've been pestered for years by complaints from motorists about that building. It constitutes a grave menace to auto safety, squatting there in the middle of the road. It scares...
...game, "Flash News." It was too complicated to sell much more than 10,000 sets (at $2.50) and is presently being simplified. From "Flash News" Editor Spiro did learn, however, that there is money in games-if you don't play them. Soon he secured rights to solitaire "Auto bridge" (a British invention) and organized a production company with himself holding the fattest share. Now his sideline has become a thriving business with several hundred employes occupying a spacious loft building in Manhattan...
Imported from Belgian Congo, Jiggs was brought up by Mrs. Jacqueline Gentry to eat at the table with the family, to use the bathroom, to ride in an auto, to play with the children next door. One thing he refused to do, however: sleep in a blanketed bed. One night last fortnight he slept outdoors in a storm, three days later died of pneumonia. Paramount planned (but failed) to send a delegation of famed actors to watch Jiggs buried in his silk-lined coffin. A Christian Science funeral service was read at his grave...
...York story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell had taken her stand in Dixie, Pittsburgh-born Hervey Allen, whose grandfather had fought with the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, took sides with the boys in blue. Traveling on foot and by auto through the Shenandoah Valley, he gathered his material as resolutely and almost as slowly as his forefathers advanced upon Richmond...
...discovery. Of primary importance will be its practical application in eliminating 90 percent of headlight glare of oncoming cars. However this can be achieved only when Polaroid is in general use for, in order to be effective the wind shield must be polarized as well as the glass in auto headlamps...