Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ford Sued. The Packard Motor Car Co. and the Wire Wheel Corp. of America last week filed suit against the Ford Motor Co., charging that the demountable wire wheel used on the new Ford is an infringement of the Cowles patent which Packard and Wire Wheel control. Fourteen years ago, one Edward T. Cowles of Warren, Ohio, sold this patent to Packard for a reported...
...that distinguished journalist M. Stephane Lauzanne, writing in the authoritative Matin: "In one word, M. Hoover is the first business man in a country of the biggest business men in the world. Perhaps he may never move crowds with his eloquence nor the world with his declarations in fourteen points. But it is certain that, with him as President, America will never suffer cold, nor hunger, nor privation...
...Fourteen "Yesses." With kinetic directness the Council moved to attack the Vilna question-unsolved for the past eight years...
Down a sunny street in St. Augustine, Fla., sped an automobile excitedly tooting and towing a fantastic bicycle. Fourteen-foot wings flapped great currents of air on either side of it. Flushed, intense, George White sat optimistically astride his invention. He pedalled furiously to force the wings to a rate of 100 flaps per minute, cast off from the car, rose gracefully in air. Like some prehistoric monster, the ornithopter, wings glistening in sunlight, described a gigantic parabola and came, back to earth. It had traveled eight-tenths of a mile in one minute and 36 seconds (rate...
This year, his first on the University lacrosse squad, he has played in every game and has displayed a good brand of stickmanship at the positions of point, coverpoint, and first defense which he has filled at various times during the fourteen contests of the season...