Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Booster" is an auxiliary steam engine which, place under the cab, drives the trailer wheels and gives the locomotive a boost. It is especially useful in starting heavy trains and in climbing grades at low speed when the boiler is generating more steam than the main cylinders...
Such was the week's main progress, leaving the leading candidates in approximately the following positions...
...Wallace, editor of The Herald of Sauk Center, Minn., the town which furnished the original for Gopher Prairie in Sinclair Lewis' novel, Main Street, called on Mr. Coolidge. Speaking to reporters, Editor Wallace said: "Main Street may be slow and has its prejudices, but it's strong for a square deal. . . . New York is the biggest small town in the country...
Professor Guillermo Rivera '09, opened the meeting with a short speech on the history of the Club, since it was founded in 1900. In stating the purpose of the organization, he said the main purpose was to foster an appreciation of Spanish language and literature among students in the University, and to encourage cordial relations between North and Latin America...
...Stanton's answer to my letter concerning college students and religion has misrepresented my position. How long has it been good policy to reply to a man by ignoring his main contention and attacking another...