Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incident in his leisurely fashion, "and then I bumped into him. It's too bad there wasn't a motion-picture camera around. It would have furnished some good low comedy. He evidently didn't think I would drive into him. He turned around, sat down on the bumper, rather sprawled out and I carried him half way across the street. Then he jumped up and turned off the ignition...
...French North African Colonies reported a bumper wheat crop. The total is expected to exceed 20,000,000 quintals,* as against 9,471,300 for last year. This crop, added to the French home crop of 65,000,000 quintals, brings the nation's crops within its needs, which are estimated at 85,000,000 quintals a year...
...bumper is a spiked belt de-signed to keep the amorous at a respectable distance. The deterrent is three projecting steel bars about three inches in length. French maidens have entered no public protest at this attempt to rail them...
...opportunity for learning, which the University offers he compared to a machine, and declared that it was meant to be used, and used intelligently by students to cultivate their minds to yield bumper crops for the country and humanity "Throughout the generations", he said, "Harvard has proved to the country the worth of educating its leaders...