Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Christmas Julian is still in a black mood when friends rake him over the coals. That night, getting drunk alone in his house, he realizes what a fool he has made of himself in three days. He goes out to the garage, shuts the door, starts the motor. But the story does...
...century's turn one-third of the world's shipping was sail. Today all but 1,000,000 tons are either steam or motor. Before the War nine-tenths of all self-propelled ships burned coal; today one-half burn...
Starting democratically by motor-coach and ending by being driven in his own car, last autumn Author Priestley fetched a wide circuit through industrial England, busily noting what he saw and felt. At Southampton the great liners made him proud but a talk with a steward made him wonder. The Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia...
...high Bavarian crag 45 minutes by motor from the nearest railway station perches Tiefenbrunn, the estate of cleft-nosed Dr. Kurt Schmitt. The view from his bedroom window is scarcely rivaled in all Bavaria. In bed last week with a telephone at his elbow the German Economics Minister was struggling with a strangling crisis in the Fatherland's economic life...
...swims the same way, with an extraordinary glide between long and languid-looking strokes. This is partly due to the fact that McKean and Madison had the same coach ? Ray Daughters of Seattle's Washington A. C., who uses an outboard motor to churn up the tank in which his pupils practice, advises them to eat raw vegetables and milk...