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...rule first came into effect after a gay cyclist of the class of '28 swooped around a corner and flattened President Lowell himself. The reason for its reenactment is unknown, as there have been no recent accidents. Colonel Apted refuses to make a statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Gun Apted Slaps Down on Bicyclists as 8-Year-Old Lowell-Flattener Rule Is Revived | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

...Cyclists of both sexes now infest British roads to such a point that politicians talk seriously of having to win "the cyclist vote." Aristocratic motorists are often heard to swear jestingly that they would like to do to cyclists some of the things Mortimer surprised and shocked the Empire by doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death to Mortimer | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians Assembled | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Weber Withdraws | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 13, 1934 | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

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