Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time Quebec cohorts of Vice, in the persons of the city's taxi drivers, had gone violently to the rescue of girls and madams, swinging monkey wrenches and auto jacks in their onslaughts upon Virtue's students. In the thick of the battle Quebec patrons of the resorts attempted to preserve a neutral attitude, diving into closets and under beds. When finally police began to arrive and make arrests the students were nearly victorious, shoving the few remaining girls out of doors into the cold autumn night...
Automobiles caused the decline in U. S. automobile racing, when traffic made it impossible, except on speedways. In Europe, where automobiles are still a luxury, auto racing thrives because bored patricians find it amusingly dangerous. The drivers in last week's race were divided into two groups. In one group were grease-stained, speedway-trained U. S. professionals whose big, fast cars lacked the transmissions and brakes needed for road racing. In the other group were seasoned road racers like Italy's Count Antonio Brivio and Tazio Nuvolari, England's Hon. Brian Lewis and Lord Howe...
Major difference between the races for the cup put up by William K. Vanderbilt in 1904, which was the major event of U. S. auto racing before the War, and next month's race, for which the trophy was donated by his 22-year-old cousin George (brother of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt) will be the road. The original Vanderbilt Cup racecourse was over Long Island's oiled dirt roads. Roosevelt Raceway is an extraordinary establishment conceived by the first U. S. winner (1908) of the old Vanderbilt Cup race. Major George Robertson. After the War Major Robertson...
Professor Elie J. Cartan was so polite that he bowed to the photographer politely from the middle of the street and was almost run down by an auto. He had a young lady translate for him and she asked the photographer to take movies of Professor Corrado Gini. Gini had a complaint that all the delegates here probably have; that his paper was considerably different in meaning when it reached the newspapers...
...cards, though, are the U. S. Amateur Golf Championship at Garden City next week, the polo matches with Argentina at Meadow Brook next fortnight, and the 400-mile international auto race at Roosevelt Field next month. Last week, at Meadow Brook, the Open Polo Championship series ended. Last week also, International Tennis, a leisurely international carnival in whose circuit the other stops are Melbourne and Nice, Auteuil and Wimbledon, paused at the flat and singularly unarboreal New York suburb of Forest Hills, to play its last major engagement of the year-the Singles Championship...