Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condition of Colonel John pain. He had direct communication with the White House by telephone whenever he desired it. His physician, Albert W. Cram of Bridgewater, Vt., has visited him several times a week, going by sleigh or snow motor over the miles of snow-covered roads to Plymouth, where the snow now lies about four feet deep. Recently the Colonel arranged to lease his sugar lot, because he will be unable to harvest the maple sugar this year since he has lost the use of his legs. The sugar bush, known as "Lime Kiln Lot," because...
Sleeper. As Sir Austen Chamberlain rumbled toward the Gare du Nord, Paris, on his way to Geneva, a man was observed asleep in a motor car parked near the Nord station. A tired smile faintly curved his lips as he slept and a cigaret burned ever nearer his finger tips...
...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...
After a few warning twinges, the glossy blister of high prices in the New York stock market burst explosively at the prick of the rail merger ruling at Washington (see p. 28). Widespread pain was experienced by the speculating body public, as leading rail, motor, industrial and chain-store stocks oozed out 10, 20, 30, even 50, even 80 points, even 100 points.* The nerves of finance carried the anguish to distant cities...
Into Champaign, Ill., thousands of football enthusiasts were pouring-on trains, on motor cars, on trolleys, on legs. Illinois' silver and gold, Michigan's maize and azure were everywhere. The two universities were going to play. "Red" Grange was going to play. Huzzahs and jeers...