Word: carting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glorification of its new tools, their beneficial intensification of its life. Yet it takes but little detachment and contemplation to minimize the importance of these inventions while still recognizing their value. They are not necessary to life. They but facilitate extensive and intensive living. An automobile is a better cart; the radio and the moving pictures provide a keener hearing and a farther sight. They are valuable wherein they increase the sensations and hence broaden the conclusions of life, which has always been a thing of sensation and conclusion. And he who receives the sensations and reaches the conclusions...
Suddenly the road turned, but not the Baldwin motor-it skidded. In a flash between split seconds several near-tragedies became comic. The Baldwin car knocked a farmer's cart, complete with horse and farmer, into the ditch. A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches. As ever, Mr. Baldwin rose to the occasion, imperturbable, good-natured. First he made sure that none of the human beings concerned had been hurt. Then he assisted in quieting the slightly bruised and badly frightened horse; helped to get both horse...
...years, the University has had to depend for its hot dog supply upon Larry the Hot Dog Man, with his stand on Massachusetts Avenue Larry was fast becoming an immortal in College traditions, but report has it that he has deserted his little cart for the more pretentious taxi-Bob business. To fill the place he leaves vacant comes Mr. Whouley with a permanent booth...
Last week the green-coated police of Berlin detected and waylaid a package addressed to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, Doorn, Holland. The package was about the proper bulk and proportions to contain a cartwheel. Was Wilhelm building a rustic cart? Had he found the wheels too much...
...east, the California independents accordingly refined their oil, shipped the gasoline cheaply through Panama, and started a lively price-war in the Atlantic seaboard states. The Standard Oil companies were forced to meet the cuts by lowering their own tank wagon prices. Thus "price stabilization's" apple cart has been neatly spilled...