Word: rails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late great Roosevelt was II) has come to the defense of the U. S. home, the U. S. family. His method is that of personal intramural reminiscence. Detecting a certain lack of home consciousness in his country, he finds that "It has become fashionable among certain silly people to rail at this greatest of civilized institutions-the family. This is merely a method of attracting attention to themselves...
...TIME, Aug. 12, appears a statement of comparative time required by rail and steam shipments from coast to coast. To help keep TIME accurate I submit this information...
...Already Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. makes gas-electric buses (to save gear shifting in traffic) and oil-electric rail cars (which need neither third rail lines nor great power plants). Recently Canadian National Railways put into service a great oil-electric locomotive on its Toronto-Montreal route. *For a confirmed report of Mr. Smith's newest occupation...
...casual observer a dance hall is an upstairs place in a side street where the patrons stroll aimlessly about a railed-in hardwood floor, waiting for unknown partners to appear. For 10? they may pass the rail and dance for five minutes under red-lidded lights. A strong man supervises, sees there is no disturbance...
Near Royal, Ill., a turtle climbed upon the west rail of a Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. track, sat down. Along putputted a "trouble car" carrying one H. Duncan, telephone workman, at 20 m. p. h. Workman Duncan was derailed...