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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Heeding pleas of motorists that something be done about nails and sharp metal scraps on the highways, the Michigan Highway Department lately worked out a trailer which, hauled behind a truck, sucks up metal by magnetic attraction, feeds it into a hopper. The sweeper costs 35? per mile to operate, covers 42 miles per day. By last week it had accumulated more than a half ton of tire-damaging litter, including a pair of scissors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetic Sweeper | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pomp & Circumstances | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

What would be of more value to the college than a motorized snow-sweeper or an open-air parking space at $6.00 per month would be a pamphlet giving a fairly detailed, complete and specific listing of the reading covered in the course, and of the method of approach. Lest the faculty be too alarmed by fears of regimentation, let it be said that this list need not be in the nature of a promise nor even of a threat which their consciences or University Hall would drive them to abide by. To be sure, some courses, such as History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WANTED: INFORMATION | 2/9/1935 | See Source »

...asked, and up the chimney you go. Emerging sooty but elated you wash up, present yourself at the Lord Chamberlain's office and state the facts. If the Lord Chamberlain pleases he may appoint you, as he has appointed G. J. Kite, "By Royal Warrant Chimney Sweeper to His Majesty the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: By Royal Warrant | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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