Word: bike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Experimenter in Holland will learn to ride a bicycle, if he doesn't know how, and will come to consider a 10-mile bike ride a short sprint. He will discover that the raincoat, and not wooden shoes, is the most essential article in the Dutch national costume...
Twenty-five bicycle thefts have been reported to the University police since September. This may augur a bumper crop of bike stealing the rest of this year, as last years' total number of thefts was only about...
...complex dogma, presents simple concepts first, seeks to initiate more involved theology gradually. Many points are emphasized with cartoons, e.g., Jean, who has ignored the instructions of the auto dealer, has just overturned his car, while Jacques, who paid attention, is pictured put-putting happily by on his motor bike. Moral by analogy: "I have faith in God; I ought to obey...
Cutting Comment. In Batesville, Ark., Patricia Painter, strolling on the street, suffered a deep gash on her leg from a sign attached to a passing bike, reading: "Accidents Spoil...
...Copenhagen, Danish-descended Val Peterson, new U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and onetime federal Civil Defense administrator, collected a plaque sent to him by citizens of Dannebrog, Neb., pleased bike-loving Danes by pedaling jauntily about on a two-wheeler...