Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good, old days anyone interested in such a non-frilled service car could turn to the Chevrolet or Ford. Now there is no such car, unless one take to a truck! True, the new cars are sturdy and durable-upon the paved highway. But get them out into the unpaved, unimproved roads which we seek both for pleasure and for scientific purposes, and which still exist in abundance (and we hope will still be there for a long time to come) in our western States, and we would be stuck, literally...
...former classmates of President Roosevelt have been invited to the Birthday ball, and a large number of responses have been received, several of the classmates being from Cambridge. Among those present will be Edward A. Counihan '04, Judge of the Probate Court, and Franklin Ford '04, United States District Attorney for Massachusetts. This will be the second reunion of President Roosevelt's classmates within a year, as a gathering was held this summer at the White House...
...this new Caldwell story will not give many readers trouble, for it reads throughout like a complete travesty of the author's previous method. Journeyman is the story of an itinerant preacher. Semon Dye, the "potentest" man that ever drove a ramshackle remnant of a Model T Ford down a Georgia turnpike. Semon is a crap-shooting, corn-guzzling, philandering highbinder with a gimlet eye and a ready pistol...
...Ford has gone streamline pretty heavily this year, with debatable improvements. He has added more room in the front seat, greater riding ease by moving the car forward over the front wheels and substituting a new type of springs. In most ways you would hardly recognize the new Great American Family...
...Like the Ford, the Plymouth has gone streamline, has pushed its body forward, has new and safer body construction. Other improvements are a new and comprehensive cooling system which applies even to the rear axle. And the motor has a high compression ratio...