Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circumstance which led to the invention of shredded wheat was the burning of the Steel Car Company's shops in St. Joseph, Mo. By building steel passenger and freight cars away back in the 'eighties, Henry D. Perky felt that he was doing a great public service; just as years afterwards he believed in his biscuits as a religion and, in Conquistador spirit, persuaded the people of New England to eat them, as it were at the sword's point, sharpened by a scorn that startled these good people into submission...
When the fire swept the Steel Car plant, twisting the rails of its three parallel tracks, gutting the beautiful "City of St. Joseph," melting its window panes to puddles but leaving its huge cylindrical body an eloquent testimonial to the man who first tried with all his might to realize the life-saving possibilities of steel cars, that man still fought on, though in failing health; but he had hardly given up the hope of rebuilding his plant before a little French doctor, who had attended his wife in New England, recommended a diet of thoroughly cooked whole wheat...
...took a train for Franklin, La., Friday night. The ticket cost $6 and I had a little money left. I got hungry on the train and had to buy sandwiches, which were entirely too thin to satisfy me. Some one met me in a car and took me to the Criminal Court room. I was told I could sleep there...
When the World War broke out, Mr. MacWhite was prodded and hustled out of a French railway car at Lyons, so that the car might be used to rush poilus to the front. Stranded but not downhearted, Irish Michael MacWhite joined the French Foreign Legion, fought all over the Balkans, and commanded the last French division to be withdrawn from Serbia. Presently the French Government sent him lecturing through...
Other forms of revolt, such as protest against the no-car rule and compulsory military training, he finds to be mild, evidently because of the lack of mental alertness on the part of students. But in explaining the lack of protest against the unreasonableness of the 12:30 ruling, he appears a little illogical when he says that it may be due in part to the ingenuity with which ways of evading the rule are devised...