Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find ourselves", he continued, in the age of the motor, the movie and the radio, which with freedom of locomotion, novel and easy intimacies, and the everpresent and constantly expanding enterprise of the press give us a delusive facility in acquiring information. It is the day of fleeting vision. Concentration, thoroughness, the quiet reflection that ripens the judgement are more difficult than ever...
This taboo, like all others, at times works hardship on the public. It arouses curiosity without allaying it. For example, it was recently news that Philadelphia baseball fans would present Cy Williams with a "new motor car " for his ability as a home-run hitter. Affection it was, pure and simple. Everyone likes to read about affection and, having found it, wants to know how much. Did Philadelphia fans love Cy Williams like a Rolls-Royce or Ford? But for a civil answer the journals said: " A motor...
...David Kittenhouse, U. S. N., piloting magnificently over the course of 186 miles at an average speed of 177.4 miles per hour. The winning airplane was built in 1921 as a land plane and carried off the Pulitzer cup in that year. With floats added and a more powerful motor, it brought more glory to its builders and to American aviation. The victory insures the holding of the contest next year in the U. S., with Long Island Sound as the most probable site...
Regulations Relating to Motor Vehicles, Section 15: "Every vehicle, whether stationary or in motion on any public way shall have attached to it a light or lights which shall be so displayed as to be visible from the front and the rear during the period from one half hour after sunset to one half hour before sunrise...
...larger number of men at the University own or operate cars than at either Yale or Princeton. For at Yale only seniors are allowed to own them, and the advice of President Hibben of Princeton, expressed last year in no uncertain terms, was that Princeton undergraduates should not own motor cars. Therefore men of the University enjoy rather an exceptional privilege in their unrestricted ownership and use of cars...