Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the flushed birds have been winged, a motor lorry will roll up. A butler materializes. Soon the sportsmen are regaled with "high" game, with meats that are rare and bloody in a fashionably virile sense, and with champagne iced in a portable refrigerator...
...feet and stayed down four hours, its crew breathing compressed air. The South used submarines in the Civil War and one sank the Federal warship Housatonic though swamped and sunk herself by her torpedo's explosion. The French Plongeur of 1863 was 146 feet long, driven by compressed air motor. The significant features of the Holland experiments were the in troduction of a gasoline engine and of internal ballast tanks to admit and lower the ship's buoyance so that she could bs steered bottom-ward by horizontal rudders. The Holland type craft was first adopted by the British Navy...
Five weeks ago (TIME, July 11) Charles Augustus Lindbergh wished to pay an informal call on Daytonian Orville Wright, pioneer aviator. This wish he satisfied by driving a motor car through back streets of Dayton, by visiting with Orville Wright, by driving away through back streets of Dayton...
Greenwich Folly is a wise motor boat. Greenwich Folly keeps going. That was all Greenwich Folly had to do at Greenwich, Conn., to win for the second time the Gold Cup, greatest U. S. speed boat trophy...
...announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...