Word: motorboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little island of San Giovanni in Lake Maggiore, Italy, where he has been reading the Bible and Dante, listening to records and taking motorboat rides. Old Maestro Arturo Toscanini, 86, told visitors that his next U.S. concert season (beginning Nov. 7 in Carnegie Hall) would be his last. "When I come back here in April," he said, "I want to stay...
...shores of Seattle's Lake Washington last week a man selling opera glasses yelled: "It's up to the old lady, folks! Come and get 'em so you can see her run." The old lady is a fin-tailed, mahogany-plywood motorboat called Slo-Mo-Shun IV, slightly faster than her younger sister, Slo-Mo-Shun V, and holder of the world straightaway speed record of 178.497 m.p.h. With Slo-Mo V disabled by a pre-race accident last week, Slo-Mo IV had to hold off five Detroit challengers for speedboating's most prized trophy...
...sister, Reo, was a professional parachute jumper. Another sister, Ethel, was the top woman racing driver in 1947-48. Brother Carl was an outboard-motorboat racer. Brother Bob was a leading racing driver in 1951 until he broke his neck. He retired after two races this season...
...refrigerators, 49 gas stoves, 41 electric stoves, 30 have electric washing machines, and 63 have vacuum cleaners. There are 140 radios, 87 autos and ten television sets among each 100 families, and 32 of the families have one or more dogs. Six of each 100 own a motorboat or yacht and one owns a private airplane...
...Owning no yacht, motorboat, private airplane, country seat, automobile, icebox or TV set ... I hesitate to forward this questionnaire," wrote one English reader. "Besides, I am a little piqued at finding no space for the make and year of my bicycle...