Word: braked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator from California, campaigning near Mount Clemens, approached a railroad crossing in an automobile, with associates. A train approached, the safety gates sank across the way. The driver of the automobile applied the brakes, the car skidded, smashed through the gates. The engineer put on the air brake. As the train ground to a stop the car slid to within a few feet of the engine...
...prosperity which has come to automobile manufacturers this year, there is every evidence of keen competition in the business. Price cutting by Ford, Willys-Overland and others has been announced. After the widespread publicity given by the Buick to its adoption on 1924 Models of the four-wheel brake, Studebaker is now advertising extensively that front wheel braking is dangerous and will not be employed upon its cars. Evidently leading car manufacturers look forward to 1924 with the realization that competition will be even stiffer then...
Unfortunately laws are too easily made, and statute books become yearly heavier with useless impedimenta. Perhaps a prohibitive fee could be charged for initiating legislation. But, until some such brake can be attached to law-making machinery of the future, a clarification of its past products will be of inestimable value--both to students, to politicians, to judges, and, perhaps, to the defendants themselves...
...time she reached Strauss's "Mit deinen blauen Augen" she had recovered all her powers and from then on she gave a flawless and impressive performance. Of simple charm was Warlock's "That Even I Saw"; Respighi's "Pioggia" rivals Strauss's "Schlechtes Wetter" in picture painting; "From the Brake the Nightingale" by Mme. Homer's husband, Sydney Homer, equals Macdowell's beauty, and dispenses with his cloying sweetness; while the same composer's "How's my boy?" is of strange power, reminiscent in general spirit of Synge's "Riders to the Sea", and of equally compelling force...
...liebliche Wangen Brahms Mme. Homer III. Fire, Fire, My Heart Morley Rhapsody Brahms (Contralto solo by Mme. Homer) Russian Folk Songs. Song of the Lifeboat Men Fireflies At Father's Door Drake's Drum Coleridge Taylor The Harvard Glee Club IV. How's My Boy Sidney Homer From the Brake the Nightingale Sidney Homer Pioggia Respighi Tramontarano la luna e le Plejadi Benvenuti As Ever I Saw Warlock Dedication Warlock Mme. Homer V. Echo Sullivan Noon Quiet in the Alps Bossi Hallelujah Chorus, from the "Mount of Olives" Beethoven The Harvard Glee Club...