Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thick grey curtains of rain descended upon the northwestern corner of Wisconsin. All week they brushed the forests, slowly, monotonously. Everything dripped and the rust-colored road from Lake Superior to small Brule, the inland riverbank settlement, developed treacherous potholes despite the thousands of dollars Wisconsin had just spent to make it a safe road for a President to travel. An Army truck transporting mail-of-state foundered and tipped over. A light passenger car transporting a heavy, round-shouldered figure out of the dismal wilderness, slithered into a rut, stuck, had to be dragged out by horses...
Purposes of the loan: 1) Refunding of previous 5, 5½^ and 6^½ issues; 2) Road building; and 3) "Paying certain expenses of the party in power during the coming election"-according to indignant charges made, last week, by the opposition party of onetime President Dr. Belisario Porras...
George Richards Minot: A medical explorer, who has abolished a fatal malady, and opened a road for more recovery...
From Boston to Dedham--Dedham to Providence. Take route 1A from Providence to Westerly and from Weseterly follow route 1 to Mystic, Connecticut. The state road runs directly from Mystic to New London. Traveling at an average touring speed the trip can easily be made in three and a half hours...
...made is on each occasion clear. Moral earnestness is required, yet the choice is between obvious right and wrong. Such a choice would be easy. In the maze of life, however, the conditions are much more insidious. The alternatives are by no means always a rugged but righteous road that winds upward, and a pleasant way leading surely to ultimate perdition. Often the paths do not seem very different, or to diverge much; and a clear vision is required to see whiter they tend Nor does a choice settle the destination, for there are by ways to return...