Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trolley...
...shadowy dynamos. Yet if popular timepieces recorded kilowatt instead of solar hours, Public Service Corp. 1928 earnings of over $22,000,000 would suggest bright lamps in New Jersey homes, savory roasts in New Jersey gas-stoves, whirring wheels in New Jersey factories. It would also suggest millions of trolley rides and bus rides on Public Service Corp. controlled lines. For Public Service Corp. power serves 82% of New Jersey's 3,821,000 population...
...Alphonsine Morin, across the street, saw two men, hands over head, walk out of the garage, followed by two uniformed policemen with leveled guns. Obviously a raid and an arrest. She watched captors and captives enter the blue car, which flashed down the street, passed a trolley on the wrong side, melted away in traffic...
...discovery that there was a blue-book too many. the mysterious being could change its shape at will for never did he appear twice in the same form. Once a section man thought he recognized the features of a freshman who had been run over by a trolley car; another swore he saw a man who had been expelled last June. But they were never sure; and always the extra bluebook was unsigned...
...Arbiter Benito Mussolini made known his will that "club," "cocktail," "trolley," "tram" and other foreign words which have crept into Italian shall be expunged. Furthermore notice was given that all patriots will distinctly sound and roll the Italian "r" particularly in "Roma...