Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than we had many times before. It was fairly late and we were not aware what had happened at first, but soon saw that we were surrounded by seven bandits armed with rifles. They did not lay hands upon us, but with their weapons forced us to drive the car into the woods until we had to abandon it there. It was here that they killed Mme. Prokorov's little...
...Another car immediately gave chase and eventually caught up with the fleeing would-be assassins. A duel of shots was exchanged, in which two of the bombers were seriously wounded; a third was arrested, unharmed, while a fourth escaped...
Immediately two small black objects came hurtling through the air to be followed by two deafening detonations and a number of revolver shots. The glass left the general's car abruptly, some of it burying itself in his face; otherwise he was unhurt, as were his companions. Before they had time to recover the speedy Essex disappeared...
...spectators propelled themselves as speedily as possible into its white tiled maw. Seven hours later, at one minute after midnight, the motor vehicles for which the tunnel was built began to pass through from the New York and the New Jersey sides. In the second motor car to pay its toll fee*was Mrs. Clifford Milburn Holland, whose husband died as chief engineer of the tunnel. With her was Mrs. Milton H. Freeman, whose husband also died as chief engineer...
...Fifty cents for a car, 25 cents for a motorcycle, up to two dollars for a heavy truck. †About 1¾mi., longest of its kind in the world. Under the River Thames, at London, are Blackwall and Rotherhithe Tunnels, each 1¼ mi. long. Other important underwater vehicular tunnels are at Glasgow and Hamburg. The longest tunnel in the world, regardless of purpose, is the Shandaken Tunnel in New York State-28.l mi. It carries water to the Ashokan Reservoir...