Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Both flew Stinson-Detroiter monoplanes, manufactured in Stinson's name in Detroit. Both, nearly there, dropped in Montana. After flying all night through difficult weather, Mr. Schiller was forced down at Billings, almost out of gas, Mr. Stinson reached Missoula, which has a flying field, with his motor balking from a stuck valve. Fearing wild intervening country, he decided not to chance it with the cranky engine, and quit the race...
...other hand, if the decrease in enrollment is not traceable to the motor edict, the university will have same cause for wonder. It would seem that the circumstance must reflect discredit on either the attitude of the incoming freshmen or on the university authorities for some unknown cause. It is to be wondered which of the alternatives is the more salutary...
Skirting the southern end of the island, typhoon and tidal wave broke on the western shore, carrying great boats high into the air and dashing them onto inland rice fields in the vicinity of Nagasaki. The towns of Nakamura and Kojima were wrecked. Jetties, heavy laden barges, motor boats were crushed by the terrific weight of water or blown away by the screeching wind...
...past summer was an exciting one for portly, gruff, sport-loving hospitable Mr. McCarter. Late in July he narrowly es- caped death in a motor accident near Modia, Pa. A few weeks before that at Romma an explosion and fire had driven him hurriedly from his motor cruiser on the Shrewsbury River, near his home at Rumson, N. J. The cruiser was consumed. Last week, in best of health, he sailed for the U. S. after five weeks in Europe...
Died. Isadora Duncan, 47, famed danseuse; in Nice. One end of her red scarf caught in the front wheel of her motor; she was dragged from her seat and instantly killed. On her bier, her chauffeur laid a huge bouquet of flowers representing a month's earnings...