Word: minerva
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning, and the anniversary of the marriage of the present King and Queen of Italy in 1896. Gendarmes in khaki overcoats, their steel trench helmets painted white, formed a guard of honor. Cinema operators, sound and silent, stood by their tripods, then threw away their cigarets as a gleaming Minerva, private automobile of King Albert of Belgium, drew up at the curb...
Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania still has the Lincoln which Henry Ford gave her. Patriotic King Albert has a Belgian Minerva but more often rides a motorcycle (TIME...
...smelt-fishing. At twelve he was racing his own little boats and, soon after, sailing with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper; his own son calls him "Mister Adams" on shipboard...
...industry heard alarming reports. Persistent were the rumors that the Opel family would sell control of" "General Motors of Germany" to General Motors of the U. S. Angry nationalists, worried competitors, planned an automobile trust to battle U. S. production methods. Daimler-Benz began to dicker with the Belgian Minerva...
...were symbolically burned upon two Pagan altars by Il Duce. The securities had been contributed by patriotic citizens, and their destruction of course reduced the public debt by the amount of their face value and interest. The Pagan altars employed were originally used to offer up sacrifices to Goddess Minerva and Goddess Lucina...