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Word: motorized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other major groups of U. S. prisoners were violators of the Interstate Motor Vehicle Theft Act, the Postal Laws, the Counterfeiting Act, the Mann Act (white slavers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cattle-Herding | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor in the world, he remains capricious, moody, fond of asserting his independence and of practical jokes. He likes to take long motor trips without planning them, starting at night for some distant point and singing on the way. His companions are usually less important showpeople who laugh at all his jokes. He gives money to beggars, is shrewd at driving bargains, has been known to refuse several thousand dollars to sing for five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...prod the insult doubly deep, Mr. Snowden, when he had done, hobbled out past the French delegation with lips pursed, whistling, set off for a motor ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Snowden v. Europe | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Apparently an oblique answer to the new $4,500, front-wheel-drive Ruxton, "America's First Front-Wheel-Drive Motor Car," nationally advertised last week (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Auto | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Mercury's wing spread is only 18 ft., her length 23 feet. Her motor is a 24-cylinder Packard, generating more than 1,100 h. p. Lieutenant Williams, expert in motors, metals and fabrics operating through high speed's, naturally expects her to win the Schneider Cup at Cowes, England, next month. To do that she must surpass the 318 m. p. h. attained by the Italian Major Mario de Bernardi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Swiftest Flyer | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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