Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred eighty synchronous motor-driven, self starting electric clocks have been installed in buildings throughout the College. In an institution where thousands of people are meeting engagements every day, it is necessary to have the correct time available. The clock system now used is connected with the time pieces in the central power station which are checked by wireless from the U. S. naval Observatory at Arlington, Virginia and control the alternations of the current through connections to the turbine governors. The accuracy of the large 60-cycle electric networks is thus maintained within 5 seconds plus or minus. Even...
...sandals. His simplest method of holding tribal loyalties is to marry the sheik's daughter. He has taken to wife over 100 of them in the past ten years, divorced most of them (no disgrace in Arabia). Because he has given up camels for fast bullet-proof motor cars in conducting desert warfare, his favorite wives follow the flag in a close-shuttered regulation police van or pie wagon, safe from prying eyes. Ever since the War Ibn Saud has been fighting to extend his realm. By 1925 he had completed conquest of the Hejaz which contains the holy...
...sustained while bathing at Palm Beach last winter, their importance lay in the fact that they rang down the curtain on the preliminary spring races for 3-year-olds. All weather-vanes on all U. S. racing stables now pointed abruptly toward Louisville, Ky. Thither was shipped in padded motor vans and horse Pullmans every 3-year-old filly, colt and gelding in the land worth its oats. There, at Churchill Downs this week, the nation's 1934 racing season would formally open with the 60th annual running of the Kentucky Derby...
...group of lawmakers, these six Democrats and four Republicans were of mixed financial breeding: Senator David Reed from steelmaking Pittsburgh, Senator James Couzens from motor-making Michigan, Representative Allen Treadway from the bucolic Berkshires of Massachusetts, Representative Isaac Bacharach from sporty Atlantic City, Representative Sam Hill from the tall timbers of northern Washington, Representative Tom Cullen from the sidewalks of Brooklyn's Red Hook district, Senator Walter George from cotton-picking Georgia, Senator William King from silver-mining Utah and, most important of all. the two chiefs of the conference-for the Senate, a shrewd lawyer from Gulfport, Miss...
...While inspecting some Michigan peat deposits in 1904, Mr. Olds received a wire from a group of his fellow businessmen in Lansing, offering him the management and control of a new automobile company using his initials for a name. R. E. Olds thus became the founding-president of Reo Motor Car Co. Olds Motor Works was later one of the original divisions of William Crapo Durant's General Motors, but Mr. Olds and Reo have been stoutly independent for 30 years. Last week the white-crested old motorman, who has been inactive for a decade, suddenly found himself...