Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Architects Collens and Pelton went from Paris to Barcelona in a motor car last summer to get ideas for the new church. They studied how the Gothic architects threw stone into the sky like lace. It took them 21 days. At Le Mans, Carcassonne, Burgos, Leon, Valencia, Salamanca, Segovia and Toledo, they admired the Cathedrals, but they liked Chartres best...
...always good fun to compute the output of the Ford Motor Co., the centre of U. S. business romance. The Wall Street Journal from time to time publishes some crumbs of Ford information which its agents pick up in Detroit. That is where these statistics of Ford's year production came from, that the paper published last week...
...clock this evening the Harvard Mathematical Club will held its fortnightly meeting in Conan Hall Common Room C.I. Lubing will speak on "Motor Calculus" an important topic in modern physics. All interested Harvard men are cordially invited...
...tactics of Elevatorman Herman, what did they think of 101 examples of the same casuistry on a scale too large to be obvious? What did they think of newspapers like the Cleveland Times, which routed out an aged invalid lady, trundled her around the city in a motor car eagerly lent and frequently mentioned in the subsequent sob-story, named shops and hotels which elaborately displayed their wares and hospitality to her and the Times reporter, and trundled her home amid a short-hand account of her boundless gratitude to all the super-generous publicists concerned? What did they think...
...Many Autos. Last week, with the year's motor vehicle registrations completed, the magazine Motor gloated: 22,342,457 machines in the U. S., 11% more than in 1925, one for every five people in the country. Seven states registered more than a million cars each-New York (1,818,765), California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan and Texas. Nevada has fewest: 23,933. Many Busses. To motor bus manufacturers and operators, the statistics of an Interstate Commerce Commission report that appeared last week were pleasant. There are in the U. S. 22,368 busses listed as common carriers. They...