Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Close behind M. Doumergue's, moved two other pairs of distinguished pedal extremities, conveying, respectively, the stoop-shouldered little figure of Edward, Prince of Wales, and the swaying rotund bulk of Ahmed Mirza, recently deposed Shah of Persia. Came other European princes, potentates, diplomats. Came scores of officials, bedight with badges...
...feet and rising more than three feet in a man-driven airplane. This was achieved in the " aviette," a combination of bicycle and biplane, which rose after a rapid run on the ground. Poulain's death will cut short interesting experiments with a glider equipped with a pedal-driven propeller...
...arrived in the University Book Store, how one of his superiors returned the books to the publisher, how Dr. Sprowls had protested to President Morgan. According to Dr. Sprowls the President had replied: " I believe in evolution more than you do, Dr. Sprowls, but it is necessary to soft pedal evolution because Tennessee is as likely to have a 'monkey' legislature as Kentucky." Thereupon Dr. Sprowls was dismissed. He told the trustees that there was no question of his reinstatement-he had secured a position with the University of Idaho, and would not return to Tennessee if asked...
...Indian stalking ancestors may have been trim and athletic of necessity, old family albums show corporations as well as side whiskers and one wonders how they flourished in the rigorous life of the time. Can it be that men existed in that golden age who never pushed a pedal nor pulled an oar? Impossible...
...Times, and is constantly hiring more warehouses to hold his money; and Wiley, who goes everywhere that Ochs goes, like the little bird that accompanies the rhinoceros, and warns it. Otto H. Kahn was there. His specialties are money and music, with a little extra pressure on the money pedal. Also Melville Stone, who joined the 'Why Did I Do It Club' when he sold the Chicago News to Lawson."-Arthur Brisbane in the Hearst papers...