Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad will have a light workout tomorrow afternoon before entraining for Princeton. Leaving at five o'clock they will spend the night in New York; on Friday they will proceed to Princeton for a slight workout in the Palmer Stadium. Friday evening the squad will motor to Trenton to spend the night at the Stacey Trent Hotel. On Saturday they will return to Princeton to meet the Tiger before a crowd...
...Steinmetz' chief technical interests were: 1) "Cold" light; 2) Hydroelectric development; 3) electrified railways; 4) electric motor truck (TIME, March 10); 5) artificial lightning. His experiments pre- ceded and made possible the 2,000,000-volt flashes at the Pittsfield plant last June (TIME, June 18). Steinmetz had often predicted the course of future technical development. Last August he wrote that a four-hour day would accomplish all essential work in 2023 A.D. The steam locomotive will be obsolete, smoke eliminated. All heat, power, light furnished by hydroelectricity...
China. Mr. Andrews, accompanied by his wife Yvette, heads the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of National History. Leaving Peking last Spring they went to the railroad's end beyond Kalgan in the Khingan mountains. By motor they passed through the gateway of Inner Mongolia and across the Gobi Desert, 1,000 miles. Some went to Urga, present capital of Mongolia; Andrews and the main party turned south to the Altai ranges to fossil fields located last season when the skull of Baluchitherium, giant primitive rhinoceros, was discovered...
...story told by The Fourth Estate was that the Chevrolet Motor Co. offered to pay for nine pages of advertising in the Times, if the Times would publish a 16-page supplement composed as follows: Six pages of "reading matter" on the History of Transportation and The Conquest of Times prepared by the Chevrolet Co.; nine pages of Chevrolet advertisements; one page of advertisement to be sold to another advertiser by the Times...
Every effort is being made to reduce congestion to a minimum. Motor traffic will not be permitted to cross the Anderson Bridge after 1 o'clock. After that time, cars must enter by way of Brighton Street, to make passage for the crowd easier in Harvard Square and on Boylston Street...