Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paraders trudged by the White House, turned around before the State War & Navy Building and were starting back when city and White House policemen swooped down to arrest them. The charge: Parading without a permit. Singing the "Internationale" and jeering a White House motor car, they were marched off to the police station, thoroughly pleased with their fate...
...Among the largest motor boat builders in the U. S. are, for cruisers, Elco, American Car & Foundry (ACF), Matthews, Consolidated Ship Building Corp., Banfield; for runabouts, Chris Smith & Sons, Horace E. Dodge, John L. Hacker, Gar Wood, Sea Sled...
...other day our lady Vice-Principal got onto a street car. She was wearing a brand new dress. I heard a woman in the seat back of me remark to her friend: 'Ain't it awful the way these women dress? You can't tell school teachers from ladies now a days.' . . . Tom shambled into my conference room and lounged in a chair; the pool of his clear honest eyes was troubled. He liked the girl, he said, awfully, but he wished she'd not 'paw' him, they weren't engaged...
...inelasticity of rubber is useful-in motor car tires, bumpers, airplane shock absorber cords-because it absorbs considerable of the energy which stretches it and transforms that absorbed energy into heat. That is why a continually flexing, moving tire is hot. Pull (not slide) a rubber band between closed lips. The lips can feel the heat. Pull (not slide) a piece of steel similarly (a machine is necessary), the steel will cool...
About thirty-five men from the Banjo Club, Gold Coast Orchestra, and Mandolin Clubs with a few of the specialty men will leave for Williamstown at noon on Saturday, March 14, by bus and private car. Upon arrival, they will be received and entertained until the performance in the evening. This is to be a joint concert, sponsored by the Williams Musical Clubs, and the program will be identical with the selections played at Roxbury, with the omission of the vocal club numbers. The group will spend the night in various dormitories and fraternity houses, before the return on Sunday...