Word: cyclists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clay laid down by Pleistocene glaciers. On the basis of his cycle Dr. Abbot in 1933 made temperature and precipitation predictions for 30 U. S. cities for 1934, 1935, 1936, stowed them away in a stout safe. With the danger of misleading anyone on the 1934 forecasts well past, Cyclist Abbot revealed how they turned out: excellent, 27%; good 42%; right about half the time, 17%; poor...
Like many an oldtime cyclist, Orlando Weber jumped into automobiles at the Century's turn. He distributed Pope Toledos in Chicago. His business potency had been proven as a vice president of Maxwell Motors in 1917 when Eugene Meyer persuaded him to enter one of the chemical companies that later went into Allied...
...Roebling, N. J., 15 motorcyclists roared single-file along a highway. Careening drunkenly from the opposite direction, William C. Burton drove his car into the first cyclist, into the second, the third and so on down the line until he had bowled over...
...tandems, supplied with six or eight gears, are capable of anything from 40 to 45 miles an hour. Many of the machines on view, it is interesting to note, are of the 'made-to-measure' model, and can only be obtained after a consultation between cyclist and cycle-manufacturer...
Born in Norfolk, Va., with the fairly respectable name of Margaret Upton, Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner was only 15 when she ran away, fascinated, with Trick-Cyclist Heurtin, who promised to teach her how to turn a somersault on a bicycle and thus become a great actress. Mr. Heurtin was like a father to her, the simp, but in Colorado she met Everett Archer, who fluttered her; she married him, discovered that "Love is not beautiful and romantic; it is horrible and disgusting." Two days were enough; she went back to Norfolk with the apprehensive Mr. Heurtin...