Word: treads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bore, poppet-valve engine of 15 horsepower on a 4% in. stroke. Their wheelbase is that of the Ford and Chevrolet, 100 in. The overall height is 5 ft., 8 in. with a low centre of gravity due to an 8% in. axle-clearance and the standard 56 in. tread. Tiny balloon tires, smaller even than Ford balloons, have been furnished by Fisk...
...much discussion have effected little. And in a time when the youth of the nation is shouldering so many of the difficulties which their very vigor and intrepidly enable them to carry it is interesting to realize that some of the student youth of the country dare to tread upon such hallowed ground...
...shall attend no more classes this day. Let wise men rush in, where this fool fears to tread. Hell holds no fury for a Dante, and at 3 o'clock in Sever 17 Professor Elton will lead his class into the nether regions. Vagabonds do not go direct, but course after course...
...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...
Schopenhauer is delightful about the first of January when mid-years and other pleasures serve to sins one into the manifold morbidities of mundane moroseness--and Schopenhauer. Comes spring--or rather comes the thought of spring, and Schopenhauer returns to his shelf while Robert Herrick's measures tread the mind, and day dreams take the place of nightmares. A silly soul, indeed, has phrased it thus...