Word: oxcart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the fact that these lines fly mostly at night, usually in filthy weather, over terrain which alternates fantastic Chinese-print mountains with treacherous rice-paddy terraces, they have had no serious accidents which were not brought on by Japanese guns. Because traditional modes of transportation in free China-oxcart, ass, camel, over miserable roads-are unbearably slow, and because trucks so often break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers...
Czech territory. Meanwhile, Premier Volosin, failing to get protection from Führer Hitler or assistance from Rumania's King Carol, fled into Rumania in a peasant's oxcart...
...liberal being one with both eyes open to see that an auto moves faster than an oxcart, that trees grow better in sunlight, that all men are not created free and equal...
...novel; Mr. Seldes, in a charmingly written, yet somewhat prolix production naively presents an emasculated re-examination as the key to America's way out. Again we stand at the Cumberland Gap to hear the pounding of the buffalo feet, the tread of the Indian, the tone of the oxcart--and in many more pages than Turner's memorable paragraph. Because of the frontier America need become neither Fascist nor Communist. Just what it will become, Seldes veils in a murky optimism...
...Grattan McGeer, K.C.. representing the Vancouver Trades & Labor Council, got the floor. For three and one-half hours he harangued the Commission, lambasted Canadian banking as a "credit racket'' which was strangling commercial life. He told the Commission that it was "trying to patch up an oxcart instead of buying an automobile" (i.e. nationalizing credit...