Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paths to Paradise. "Darling/' said Raymond Griffith, master crook, to Betty Compson, his accomplice, when their speedy roadster had just eluded 100 motor cops, "I feel we're doing wrong. Let's turn around and take the diamond necklace back where it belongs." They do so; another chase speeds up an excellent comedy...
...Charles River in Cambridge, Mass., last week beheld a scene out of the sepia supplements of the Sunday papers. A beamy, 35-foot Navy cutter was moving steadily by, showing neither smoke nor sail and emitting a "put-put-put" altogether too faint to be coming from a gasoline motor proportionate to the craft's size. Men on the deck were observing a smokeless stack that rose amidships, a cylinder 3½ feet in diameter and 9½ feet high. The stack was revolving. The vessel was a U. S. rotorship-the first...
...knots an hour. They estimated that whereas a 10 horsepower engine would have been needed to drive their craft 6 miles an hour by propeller, the rotor and a 15-mile wind would take them 7 miles an hour with an exertion, from the put-put-put-ing motor that turned the rotor, of 1½ horsepower...
Tomorrow. The class will motor to Hingham, Mass., and will lunch with Charles E. Mason. They will then return to Cambridge for the Yale-Harvard baseball game...
Today. The class will motor from Plymouth to the Brookline Country Club, where they will lunch at 12.30 o'clock. They will attend the Class Day exercises in the afternoon...