Word: hillses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swift "tanks" sped over the hills of Württemberg-they were really motor trucks. Huge "bombers" and darting "pursuit planes" soared aloft-they were only toy balloons towed by motorcyclists. Great "howitzers" and "field guns" rumbled past-they were made of wood. Finally 25,000 soldiers marched, skirmished and...
At Short Hills, N. J., a golfer addressed his ball to play the long first hole of the Baltusrol course. The ball disappeared over a highway on his left. He tried another, whacked it after its fellow. A third ball also, journeyed to limbo. A fourth landed on the fairway...
Writers of sporting articles are forever chafing themselves into a fine frenzy over nothing at all. It is their trade. Poor fellows, they must find something memorable in every tilt they see and a shred of Hector in every county champion. They are paid to make things seem exciting and...
Mechanically-minded son of an Indiana miller, he none the less, to gain livelihood, had learned the printing craft. As a printer he worked among the Dakota Black Hills, at Minneapolis, at Chicago. There he founded the periodical Dairy Produce, fought against spurious oleomargarine. (In 1902 Congress passed the bill...
Roger W. Babson, statistician: "To impress upon the 13th annual National Business Conference, which met as my guests at Wellesley Hills, Mass., the dangers of overextending the instalment business, I said, that 'a distinct recession in business and possibly a panic within two or three years would not be...