Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feat was undertaken to justify the party. But according to the "Nation", such an act as Mr. Borah has made might very possibly give him such a start on the rocky road to the presidency as the famous "Cross of Gold" speech so nearely gave William Jennings Bryan...
Several of Harvard's future opponents are now on the road for the spring recess games and will meet the same nines against which the Crimson will play. The results of these clashes will serve as an early opportunity to estimate the power of the University's rivals...
French intelligence solved the problem by an announcement that a "midnight storm" had washed away a section of the one comfortable motor road connecting the French resorts with San Remo. Next day French artisans were busy repairing the stretch of road with such vigor that for long it will be impassible. Italians wrathfully and truthfully declared that there had been no storm. High play at San Remo fell, at least temporarily...
...huge pine tree caught fire in Leaf, Miss., and a bus full of school children started out for school. As the car bumped along the road, the tree tottered; when the car was precisely under it, the pine tree leaned slowly and fell, as true as a golden hammer, killing the driver and five of the children...
...Scripps-Howard newspapers. People metaphorically stutter when in trouble or when annoyed. They like to have some handyman appear when the water is shut off, when a neighbor's garbage is dumped in their backyard, when their cat gets the colic, when there is a hole in the road in front of their garage. Five years ago, Editor H. D. Jacobs of the Scripps-Howard Baltimore Post conceived the idea of making one of his reporters a Mr. Fixit, whose duty would be to solve the troubles of Baltimoreans. Mr. Fixit was first tried out in the more potent...