Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notions. But he cannot get away from facts, and he cannot keep his eyes shut always. All farmers are much the same, be they Russian or whatever; our western farmer is very conservative, and the one who keeps to his horses will rail against the one who uses a tractor as an innovator and an idiot, but he will usually buy a tractor himself eventually, and then look down on the poor benighted heathen who uses horses. Consistency does not bother him as it does the upper class conservative. So if the new colony can live, love, and prosper without...
...designed by Filloux, a Frenchman, and manufactured in France, a gun used to a large extent by our artillery during the war, when it was especially effective during the St. Mihiel attack, and in the Meuse-Argonne advance. Although it weighs only 10 tons, making it easily movable by tractor; it has a range of 11 miles and shoots a projectile weighing 95 pounds, with an initial velocity of 2400 feet per second. The gun in the Yard has seen service in France...