Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons of ice above the water, and since the bergs ride about seven-eights under water, the total weight of each is about 800,000 tons. Icebergs have a most mystifying habit of seeking cold pockets in the ocean. When a berg is traveling South at its serene and prescribed rate of half a knot an hour, it will suddenly change...
...reporters, Mayor Walker said, as he drew near to New York, "I studied housing, hospitals, water-supply and transit. . . . I never had time to ride on the subways. I always wanted to, but there was always something else going on. . . . The funniest thing that happened to me abroad was the most pathetic. For two weeks I've been refusing good drinks." "How often?" asked incredulous newsgatherers. "Continuously." "Why?" "Hell," said the Mayor of New York, "you spoil it by asking why. I was sick!" Later the Mayor of New York said: "The greatest thrill of my life was when...
...motion of lack of confidence in him. Had they succeeded in winning the motion, it would doubtless have done them no good; for Dictators have an irritating habit of putting themselves above the law. Still, it would have done Pilsudski small good had he been forced to ride roughshod over their veto. To avoid all such unpleasantness, he issued a decree closing the Sejm...
...books. George Henry Doran also was a stubbornly ambitious office boy- in Toronto and Chicago publishing houses. In 1909 he founded his own publishing company. The new Doubleday, Doran & Co. proposes to be the most efficient existing avenue down which an author's ideas, facts & fancies may ride to the bookshelves of the world. Doubleday, Doran & Co. is certainly the most potent book publishing concern in the U. S. which owns its own production plant. Doubleday, Doran & Co. has already (through Doubleday, Page) started a chain of U. S. bookstores which will provide the most extensive retail machinery known...
...Kahn family shakes its head over Roger's "speed complex." At 14 he used to ride a motorcycle up the steep sides of the bunkers on his father's golf course. He tore down his first Ford and put it together so that it was a racing car with an underslung chassis. Never did a jerky airplane bumping through a series of air pockets make him sick at his stomach...