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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard-faced, middle-aged woman who sped up and down Piccadilly in a tiny, three-wheeled automobile. Why had it no license? Why had she no license? Shrewd, the woman spoke her alibi: "It hasn't any license, and I haven't any license, because my car hasn't any engine!" While astonished motorcycle bobbies paced her, the hard-faced middle-aged woman peddled potently on a bicycle mechanism and speeded her tiny car up to 25 miles per hour. An official of the firm now marketing "The Taxlessmobile" hinted that several young, pert, pretty female demonstrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shrewd | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Only the temporary iron tower for pouring cement remained standing, swaying and lashing wildly, while a single workman clung to the topmost pinnacle, scared but safe. A passing trolley car was derailed by falling chunks, and passengers tumbled out higgelty piggelty?some gravely cut and wounded. Meanwhile, shrieks & groans ascended from the fallen building's debris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scalawag's Cement | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...sons, back to back, manufactured by the Pope Mfg. Co. in 1898), communicate with Henry Ford of Detroit, Mich., and he will no doubt smile with pleasure. Mr. Ford wants a Dos-A-Dos because his engineers believe that it was equipped with 'demountable & interchangeable wheels. The Packard Motor Car Co. has brought a patent infringement suit against the Ford Motor Co. because of the demountable & interchangeable wheels on the new Fords. Thus, a Dos-A-Dos might possibly be favorable evidence for Mr. Ford. His agents were last week poking in old barns for a Dos-A-Dos. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Blanketed and heavily chaperoned, the Army mule will make its-first appearance on Soldiers Field this afternoon. The Missouri mascot has been conveyed to Cambridge in a special box car, the first time he has been taken so far afield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Deacon", Black Army Mule, Heads Stadium March of 1200 Cadets Today-Is Not Subject to Stage-fright Before Crowds | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...clock--Leave from Park Street Under on two special four-car subway trains for Stadium station. March along Memorial Drive, up Plympton Street to Harvard Yard, Break ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAY OF ACTIVITY IN STORE FOR VISITING CADET CORPS | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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