Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defending champion had his inning first. Three weeks ago he drove his seven-ton, eight-wheeled Thunderbolt over the measured mile of glistening salt at an average speed of 345 m.p.h., 34 m.p.h. faster than man had ever traveled on earth. Last week, after a fortnight of unfavorable weather, Challenger Cobb had his inning. Sitting in the nose of his tear-shaped, front-and-rear-engined Railton† (only half the weight of Thunderbolt}, with his head accommodated in an aluminum cupola with a speak-easy window, Driver Cobb streaked over the measured mile in a little over...
...Named after its British designer, Reid Railton, who also designed Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird, first car ever to travel 300 m.p.h. and holder of the world's record before Captain Eyston's Thunderbolt. Last week Sir Malcolm broke his own world's record for speed on water by driving his motorboat Bluebird 130 m.p.h. on Lake Hallwil, Switzerland...
...ever will a Blockhead be; But he that learns these Letters fair Shall have a Coach to take...
Immediately Leary issued a statement berating the voters for electing him. Then he demanded a recount "to cause trouble and annoyance and teach people not to vote for him ever again...
...used for acquiring that amount of knowledge which brands him an educated man. So inhuman are most of those who make up theories on education, that they overlook the very human habits of wandering from the "path" and tripping up here and there. They forget that no man ever learned a thing for himself directly; it is natural that he approach a new idea in a slow, roundabout fashion, appraising and rationalizing as he goes...