Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place of a miracle, a deluge of Biblical proportions arrived, crowning out all memories of last year's Army mud festival. A solid sheet of water covered the midfield area and rapidly gained sufficient depth to actually float the ball in places. Every play looked more like an outboard motor race than a football game, and when the backs were tackled they stirred up impressive "bow waves" as they skidded to a stop. And simultaneous with the appearance of white-caps on the jumping pits, the band struck up "How Dry I Am," and someone suggested that Charlie Butter...
Wise heads both in London and Paris know that many Italian officers and upper-class soldiers can be and have been withdrawn from Spain. Most of them are replaced after three or four months' service, but the dumb thousands lurching in motor trucks and tramping muddy roads in Spain last week "know too much," are too discontented and are political dynamite too explosive to be brought back to Italy at this time...
...Carolina Motor Club...
...10th Month," which fell this week on Sunday, the 26th Anniversary of the Revolution of 1911 by which Chinese overthrew the Manchu Dynasty. All last week the muddy highway from Nanking, China's capital, to Shanghai was crowded and at times choked with tractors dragging heavy artillery, huge motor trucks wallowing forward with munitions, pack trains of heavily-loaded beasts and column after column of Chinese soldiers slogging and sloshing forward. By Tuesday morning the offensive had yet to begin, and Chinese learned that the Premier had been obliged on Sunday to hand down sentences of death to officers...
There can be no effective way of abolishing these automobile accidents, but the number of them can be lessened if the existing motor vehicle laws were rigorously enforced. A tremendous objection would arise if all students caught driving over 50 had their license taken away or if every driver under the influence of liquor was bauled into court and fined heavily or sent to prison. But the number of accidents would be materially reduced...