Word: truck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obliged to earn her living, Selina goes out to teach school at an "incredibly Dutch settlement" in the suburbs of Chicago. It is called High Prairie; its inhabitants are truck farmers; it is dreary enough to make Gopher Prairie look like a corner at Oxford Circus. While there she marries Pervus Dejong, impecunious farmer. Immediately she finds herself being dragged down to the level of High Prairie life...
...suddenly changing his mind and swerving towards Kirkland Street instead of Cambridge Street, the driver of a truck loaded with crates of oranges held up traffic yesterday afternoon, by littering the street with the contents of one of the crates. Impatient motorists waited while the driver hurriedly collected the elusive fruit in a new wash boiler, but John Harvard, who watched the whole procedure, never winked an eyelash...
...question of making these streets restricted has been brought up many times in the past, but it is believed that the final decision came only when a city truck could not navigate through the maze of cars parked on Linden Street...
Pierre Curie was killed in the prime of life, April 19, 1906, by a Paris truck ?one of the most irreparable and unnecessary losses ever suffered by science. Madame Curie struggled on with her two small daughters, and continued their great work until, in 1910, she isolated the mysterious white metal of radium itself. That her own achievements were as great as her husband's was attested by the Nobel Award in Chemistry (1911) to her alone, eight years after the Physics Prize had been given jointly to Becquerel, Pierre Curie and herself. The Sorbonne appointed...
...Lampoon building was surrounded with a stream of running water which covered the sidewalks and ran into the cellar, on Wednesday, when a five ton truck rolled down Plympton Street and crashed into a hydrant behind the Lampoon building. The hydrant was snapped off short, and for nearly two hours a 20-foot column of water spouted into...