Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main problem this fall was to find space on which the teams might play. One day last month there were 133 men playing on Soldiers Field, every available ground being occupied. This situation will probably prevail most of the time next year...
...basic means of transportation-horse-drawn (having lost ground long since); the self-contained unit (steam engine); the central power plant with ropes of power stretching out (electric engines). I predicted the long continuance of the second of these, the steam locomotive, as the dominant means of accomplishing the main purpose of the railroad-the transportation of heavy articles over long distances. Electricity will supplant steam, but only locally. I described the discipline of employes and touching on railroad management, said: 'It is character and power of will that enables one, as a leader, to control masses...
Speed was no object for they had 2,060 miles to go; getting there, from Hampton Roads, Va., to Colon, Panama, was the main thing. None the less, the two big seaplanes vanished over the southern horizon seven minutes apart, droning for Cape Hatteras at a smart 80 knots or so. The destroyer Overton, the minesweeper Sandpiper and cruiser Saukee, strung down the Atlantic and stationed off Cuba, turned on their searchlights as dusk fell, tilted their beams at agreed angles into the drizzly night. The cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati and the minesweeper Swan, stationed at intervals in the Caribbean...
...Fritz Kellerman, of the Gymnasium of Kassel, and at present Instructor in German at Harvard University, will lecture on "Prominent German Educators of Today and Their Main Problems" this evening at 8 o'clock in Lawrence...
Wasting of old Time--with a billowy main...