Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been completed, giving the U. S. its first transcontinental hard-surfaced road. Now known as "U. S. Route 30" most of the way from Atlantic City to Oakland, the Lincoln Highway was conceived by Promoter Carl Fisher early in the Century. Packard's onetime President Henry Bourne Joy formed the Lincoln Highway Association in 1913, pushed through the survey preliminaries in two years, began actual road building in 1915. With the War, the Government formed the Highway Transport Committee of the Council of National Defense, became interested in the project. This was the beginning of the present National Highway...
Whimsical...tragic...realistic...exalted...humorous...sensuous...melancholy...cynical...satirical...For joy! for shame! No, 'tis not the Vagabond. Not this time. The little stint this morning has to do with a certain Don Juan hailing from Spain and living many a spicy hour in the land of the Turk; the isles of Greece; the steppes of Russia; even unto Puritanical England...
...snarleyow kill-joy can begrudge Harvard some sort of celebration on her three-hundredth anniversary. She should have fireworks, compliments, parades, mass-meetings, -- a great, big birthday party surrounded by all her friends and relations. Also lots of beautiful presents...
...Joy?' said she. 'You ask what joy I experience? The whole world rejoices when it looks at my son and our country. What then should I, his mother, experience...
...Packard. In 1903 it moved to Detroit, leaving the Packards behind. By that time two of its principal owners were young Yalemen who had served together in the Spanish War on the U. S. S. Yosemite- Henry Bourne Joy and Truman Handy Newberry, both born in November 1864. Mr. Joy, whose father formed the "Joy System" of railroads, part of which became the nucleus of the present Chicago, Burlington & Quincy served as Packard's president (1905-16). Mr. Newberry made a pleasant little splash as T.R.'s Secretary of the Navy (1908-09) and a large unpleasant splash...