Word: chariots
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...such people, together with those who rightly wish to keep academic cloisters free from the correspondence variety of learning, have already hinted that the course in naval science about to be inaugurated at Harvard, is as repulsive (as it is unnecessary. The one sees learning hitched to the anachronistic chariot of war: the other visions an even more despicable pantomime. Neither is exactly correct...
...What seemed "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine"? (See BUSINESS...
...over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father's death), he hitched four horses to an ungainly contraption, "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine" (London Times), and lurched into a neighbor's hilly oatfield. Horses shied, dogs barked, boys yelled, slaves giggled as the burly 22-year-old inventor and his clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. Farmer Ruff, owner of the oats, called...
Colonial--"Ben Hur", at 8.15: Ben Hur labors to overtake Messalla's chariot and those millions of dollars spent on production...
...Another English revue is upon us. Managers have been gazing enviously at the grossly successful show of Mr. Chariot and laying plans how to borrow shares of his gold and glory. By the Way is a London success of many months and employs two principal British entertainers, Jack Hulbert and Cecily Courtneidge. It is terribly, terribly English, and for the first half very good fun. The second act fails to sustain the brisk supply of sketch and song. There is the usual British reticence in the matter of glowing scenery and costumes encrusted with emeralds. The piece has personality rather...