Word: steers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Automobile Show in the U. S. was held in Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden in 1900. Most models were foreign-built and all were equipped with tillers instead of steering wheels. Steamers and electrics were as popular as gasoline cars. Every afternoon contests were held for the easiest car to start, easiest to stop, easiest to steer. Winner of the steering contest had to navigate safely through a maze of boxes and barrels strewn on a plank track at 8 m.p.h. On the roof of the Garden was a ramp for hill-climbing demonstrations...
...large extent they could provide no clean-cut solution, so vigorously is Canada in ferment. Assuming, as most Canadians did before the count, a substantial victory for Mr. King & Liberals, they likewise assumed that he or any other Canadian who could conceivably become Premier now in coalition must steer a tortuous middle course: on one side are established bourgeois elements who still cast most of the ballots, and on the other the restive toilers who do not know what they want but are broadly out to soak the rich, raise the dole, nationalize railways and public utilities and probably amend...
...Consequently, Cowboy Schneider became a hero with the gallery. More accustomed to piebald Shetlands than to angry cow-ponies, he failed to last the minimum ten seconds in his first six attempts. Less daring than Brooklyn's famed matador, Sidney Frumkin (Sidney Franklin), Cowboy Schneider has tried riding steers but never wrestled one. Leading contestants after the event was a week old were Bulldogger Dick Shelton -once invited by the late Tex Rickard to become a prizefighter with coaching by Jack Dempsey-who threw a steer in 10 seconds; Trick Rider Tad Lucas, who designs her own costumes, makes...
Such harmonious grumbling was not to last. Smart, left-wing Columbia professors were on hand to steer the convention head-on into a hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party...
Though the Guffey bill was prominently listed among the President's "must" legislation for this session, Attorney General Cummings, it was learned, had been quietly asked by the White House to look the measure over in its present form, give the Administration a steer as to whether it was constitutional...