Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After leaving London with the minimum retinue of four aides, Their Royal Highnesses proceeded by ordinary channel steamer to Calais, by ordinary sleeping car across France to Marseilles, and thence, by ordinary express steamer to Alexandria, chief port of Egypt...
...last week after a tour across Africa, "I will never again make that trip without firearms, and I strongly advise against any one else doing so." An Afric native, it appeared, had frightened Mr. & Mrs. Davey by rising up out of tall elephant grass and hurling at their motor car a spear. *George V is Emperor of India alone and King of the remainder of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...know that they must put at least 1,700 pounds of pressure into each day's biting, chewing. Dr. Thomas Hartzell of Minneapolis says so. Thorough mastication requires 5,000 pounds of pressure. A person who eats properly uses enough strength daily to lift a 7-passenger motor car...
...Newark, Dr. Abraham Friedland, a foolish dentist, sat in his garage until he was overcome by carbon monoxide gas. Attracted by the cries of his secretary, policemen, passing in a car, drove in but they were too ignorant to be of any help. With them in their car the policemen had two captured thieves who, straining in their handcuffs to do a good deed, pumped and wiggled the doctor until he began to breathe again...
...Distributing Corp. (commodities delivered by barge and truck; money by armored car) : $286,769 against...