Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motor boats were taken out for the first time this year and the University class, and 150-pound crews were coached into them by Coaches Muller and William Haines. The regular Freshman cross were coached by Coach Bert Housed in a single...
Henry Ford, who is being boomed in various quarters for the 1924 Presidential nomination of any party which will give it to him, paid $4,000,000 for the satisfaction of playing fair in the automobile industry. He bought the Lincoln Motor Company from its receiver for $8,000,000, assuming none of its liabilities. Later developments showed that half again as much would be necessary in order to pay the company's creditors in full. So Mr. Ford paid...
...mines are shut down. It is peaceable, good-natured, loafing summer strike, with none of the strife and bitterness of the cold weather conflicts in the coal industry. At the Lester strip mine all is quiet. Then one day strangers begin to appear in the town. They come in motor trucks and by train. They are armed and wear police badges. Others follow them, and all at once the Lester mine commences a feverish production. For a day or two nothing happens, and then the mine guards begin to patrol the highways. They search passersby, they frighten women, they boast...
...town. He gets in touch with Hugh Willis, official of the Mine Workers' Local, and tries to arrange an honorable surrender with immunity. Willis replies evasively, but " thinks it can be arranged." The defenders are telephoned and told to wait for a " white flag and a union official motor car." They wait until sunup, but neither flag or motor appear. So they raise their own white flag, and trusting the shouts of the union miners promising them immunity, surrender in a body-45 strikebreakers and 25 mine guards. Down the dusty road they march, prisoners, promised immunity according...
...need, another medium is taxed less stringently. At the same time, there will always be a place for the novel in literature and life, so long as life is lived by story-loving human beings, and literature is produced by them. Signs are, indeed, not lacking that as the motor car, the airplane, the motion picture, cease to be novelties, and the war, for the present at least, seems a theme too sickening to dwell on overmuch, the novel is returning to some of the old function as the chief stimulus to those who feel the imaginative force waning...