Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hours late because of floods and washouts the Simplon-Orient Express from Paris drew wheezing into Bucharest last week, with the Royal Salon Car...
...sleek motor of the Prince Regent purred forth, on its way to the Imperial Palace. Darting from the crowd, Hirayama tried to leap upon the running board and force his petition into Prince Hirohito's hand. Swift, a police sergeant seized him before he could touch the Imperial car. At the police station he said: "Had my mission been successful would have committed hara kiri immediately in atonement for disrespectfully approaching the Prince Regent...
...overhear the murmurs of reaction. But such murmurs there were, even in Chicago. Three universities had in the past year embarked upon skyscrapers of learning-at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago. Detroit was contemplating the advent of an 85-story prodigy, complete with barbershops, drug stores, restaurants and a car-checking system, the Book Building, 873 feet high, planned by a young real estate heir† to top all of man's monuments save the Eiffel Tower...
...midnight, on the Frankfurt-Hamburg express, a girl, 9, got out of her berth. She climbed up on the roof of the car. There she slept. When the train reached Hamburg a brakeman brought her down, chilly, but well-rested, returned her to her mother. The older woman apologized. Unfortunate, most unfortunate-not surprising. Her daughter was a somnambulist...
...head of Golden Trout Creek, over the crest at Cottonwood Pass, down a tributary to Cottonwood Canyon, and so to our first camp, a circuit of about 100 miles in six days. The next day, we started at 5 o'clock. Deducting the time taken or towing a disabled car from the mountain road, and for breakfast, we made the 217 miles in seven and one-half hours. This time prompts a comparison between Professor Whitney and his sides in the sixties and the present. We travelled five of the eight days on horseback over good trails, one day afoot...