Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Ambrose Higgins, Jr., four, in Manhattan, knocked down by a truck. Representing the children of America, he laid a wreath on the bier of President Harding when the latter's body lay in state in the Capitol, Washington...
...report their contributions to the head collector has prevented the completion of the drive. H. K. Thayer '25, in charge of the drive, announced last night that he had yet to hear from many collectors as to the amount and the location of their collections. The P. B. H. truck will, he cald, make one last trip this afternoon to get the contributions of all those collectors who telephone the head collector at Brooks House before 2 o'clock today...
After three truck loads of clothing, books, and magazines contributed to the annual fall clothing drive of the Phillips Brooks House Association had been brought to Phillips Brooks House last night it was found that nearly 44 of the 125 collectors who were conducting the drive remained to be visited. As a result, the clothing drive, which was to have ended last night, will continue today until the remaining contributions shall have been collected. Articles may still be contributed to the various collectors during the day, and a truck will call for them this afternoon...
...Steinmetz' chief technical interests were: 1) "Cold" light; 2) Hydroelectric development; 3) electrified railways; 4) electric motor truck (TIME, March 10); 5) artificial lightning. His experiments pre- ceded and made possible the 2,000,000-volt flashes at the Pittsfield plant last June (TIME, June 18). Steinmetz had often predicted the course of future technical development. Last August he wrote that a four-hour day would accomplish all essential work in 2023 A.D. The steam locomotive will be obsolete, smoke eliminated. All heat, power, light furnished by hydroelectricity...
...walked into a truck...