Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Class A teams had broken even in two matches which were played of Friday. Captain H. N. Rawlins '27 started the Crimson on the road to victory by decisively defeating R. A. Powers, former Canadian champion, by a 4 to 1 count. Playing a very aggressive game, he completely outclassed the Unicorn leader. The feature match of the afternoon was fought out between P. M. Lenhart '27 and M. P. Baker '22, state champion, who scintillated for Harvard while an undergraduate...
Cars stopped in the road; the long white figures got out. "Come down Cliff," hailed a voice. Stubborn and terrified, Farmer Collins would not open the door. The men broke it down. They took Mr. Collins off to the wood, and finding the trembling girl and the heavy eyed boy, took them along as well-flogged father, son and daughter...
...Negro was visited a night later. Hooded men tied his hands and feet together; where his hands and feet came to a point behind his back they fastened another rope, took a turn around the rear axle of an automobile and started off at full speed down the road. The dragged body was torn beyond recognition. He had been accused of stealing turnip seed...
...Thence across Libya to Egypt and Cairo, where Lady Maud donned her afternoon dress for tea at Shepherds Hotel. Next day the Hercules soared over the Holy Land, descending at Ziza in Palestine. Thence the 543-mile flight to Bagdad was taken in a single jump. Persia and "the road that leadeth to Isphan" loomed...
Three motor cars lately jounced and bounced along the dusty pot-holed road into Samarkand, Russian Turkestan, ancient seat of Khans, golden city of Western poets. They had come from Harbin, Manchuria, some 4,000 miles. Their chauffeurs were moderately excited because none of them had had to regrease his car. At Harbin they had been supplied with the invention of one Alexander Muhacheff, Russian engineer; an oil extracted from the seeds of a weed that grows wild over vast areas of Manchuria. Despatches last week from Peking stated that some Japanese gentlemen had interested themselves in Engineer Muhaeheff...