Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commercial flying, says Detroit, will be the next business sensation. And Detroit is not satisfied with merely discussing the subject. A large all-metal dirigible the first in this country-is nearly completed in a Detroit factory shed. Promoters are already planning air lines and quarreling over passenger and freight rates. Not only the numerous automobile interest there, but bankers and even the municipal Government are interested in the new movement. Particularly active in it have been Edsel Ford, the Hudson Motor Car Co. and the Packard Motor...
...train shed is to the east of the station; this structure will have a 15-acre roof of glass and 84,000 sq. ft. of baggage room in the basement. It will accommodate 14 tracks on the south and 10 on the north...
...When petty persecutions failed, our enemies resorted to direct terrorism. They started a series of riots which have shed blood and disgraced our country throughout the spring and summer; and it [terrorism] is still in evidence ? perhaps to remain for some time to come. Most of the attacks were planned and directed by the same forces which were behind the early form of persecution. Some, it must be acknowledged, have been the product of racial instincts, hostile to Americans and everything American...
...October, a band of missionaries will set sail for Europe. Instead of Bibles and hymnbooks, these missionaries will carry with them balls, bats, mits. Instead of love and light, these missionaries will shed baseball fanaticism over Europe. Their denominations are the Chicago White Sox (American League) and New York Giants (National League), off to barnstorm Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, as they barnstormed the world together...
...must say that the cover on the present seventh wonder is exceptionally fine and worthy of the standard Mr. Child has long since set for himself. Having peered behind it, however, we cannot, unlike Alice, recall any adventures--no, we must find the Carpenter and shed another tear. . . . Swallowing hard, we escape from the prologue to the editorial page. What, O Lampy, Ibis, Blot! What has become of the magic pen? Where is the gentle flow of easy banter and the singular style that once outran alike sophomoric itchings and threadiness of subject? Such a bare veneer...