Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Motor horns honked, grey-green soldiers snapped to present arms, and a fleet of eight cars, preceded and followed by bicycle policemen, swept through the streets. To the disappointment of the crowds, the royal procession was quite as informal as the usual public appearances of Herbert Hoover...
...Wild Bill Hickok, by whose side she lies, who nursed the miners and, according to Authoress Coolidge, "softened the rigors of pioneer life with the milk of human kindness." At the White House arrived many a beast judged unfit to live therein: from Chihuahua a Mexican bear in a motor van, from Australia a wallaby (small kangaroo), from Africa twin lion cubs named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau, a duikir (tiny deer), a dozen Pekin ducks just hatched. These animals were sent to the Zoo. Only Tiny Tim. red chowchow, sometimes called Terrible Tim. and a white collie...
...brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...
...MOTOR BOATS...
...American Power Boat Assn.'s regatta for outboard motor boats and hydroplanes at Lake Elsinore...