Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After manufacturing 5,000,000 Chevrolets, General Motors turned its back on the four-cylinder motor car. Last week saw the beginning of production of a "Bigger and Better" Chevrolet-"A Six in the Price Range of the Four." Dealers will get the six-cylinder Chevrolet on and after Dec. 15. First deliveries to the public will be made...
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...Suddenly German shells dropped and the whole crew were tumbled into a nearby cellar. A convenient priest began to read from the Bible the story of Noah's Ark. By a series of titles it was prodded home that war is like the Flood. Then the picture suddenly dipped back several centuries and went into the story of that wide inundation...
...same moment it went back several years in movie methods. The sheer mass of ancient spectacle, so popular in the faraway days of Intolerance...
...soul, and has a body that must be subjugated); his contribution was the forging of the middle way between pleasure and self-mortification by which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy. He has heard of every subject. . . . His knowledge of things seems inexhaustible." He edited the ancient classics, compiled the precepts of propriety, attempted to uplift and order civilization...