Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guests no longer arrive bag and baggage via the railroad station, meat for the innkeeping Caesars. Instead they enter resorts under their own power, and proceed to the inexpensive hospitality of the "auto camp." Food they obtain from neighboring farmers, who in consequence are first to defend the camping motor tourist. Moreover, no one wants to stay put anywhere for even a week, and the landlord's toll is apt to be nightly rather than by the week or month...
...jerky Long Island R. R. trains, the bumpy, pot-holed Long Island motor roads, were ram-jammed to capacity by thronging tennis enthusiasts crowding toward Forest Hills, L. I., to see if and how anyone would humble elongated William T. Tilden II, of Philadelphia, national champion the past four years, in the 1924 national singles play...
...Boston, Motor Registrar Frank A. Goodwin decreed pictures of red, clad bathing-girls† pasted on motorcar windshields and windows, "a menace," banned them...
Last week, through the bodiless air, a man with wings but without a motor glided for 9 hrs. 4 min.-a record. The man was Lieut. Thoret. Eighteen months ago he astonished the aero world with a glide of seven hours at Biskra...
...last seen him as they neared the Greenland fog banks and felt sure he had not overshot his mark. Searchers from Ivigtut cruised the perilous icebound coast to eastward, Esquimaux trotted along the shore, looking, looking. Late Sunday night, 125 miles from shore, floating helplessly with a dead motor, Locatelli and his companions were sighted amid the waves by the U. S. cruiser Richmond, were taken aboard worn with fatigue but sound. To save the patrol ships further trouble, Locatelli scuttled his plane...