Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teaching of the theory of organic evolution in state-aided schools. Will you kindly get your staff of psychologists, anthropologists, etc., busy on this question, and inform me whether there is any connection between the danger of teaching evolution and the necessity of marking both ends of the car differently? Just last week I saw evidence that at least one person from the three above named States had a sense of humor. He had the "rear" license plate in front, and the "front" plate on the rear. More power to him! THOMAS T. GILL...
...night last week Lieut. Governor Kinne was driving his automobile along the dark roads from Lewiston to Orofino. Before him, as the car dipped over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five...
...boys tiptoed away, came back with armed aid. The arrests were made without a fight. Lieut. Governor Kinne identified his four kidnapers. The police knew the fifth man as "Seattle George" Norman, Northwest desperado, leader of the gang. Kinne's abductors confessed they had sought to steal a car while Seattle George was laying plans for a bank robbery in Pierce...
...Minnesota. Henry Virkula lived in Big Falls, ran a candy store. He had a wife, two children, a car. One day last fortnight he drove them all to International Falls on the Canadian border, started back for home along the public highway after dark. Mrs. Virkula was in the front seat with him, the children asleep in the back. He stopped to light a cigaret, then drove on along the lonely wooded road...
President and General Manager Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich...