Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limousine for Royalty's town use is a Daimler Double-Six in deep red with scarlet hairline trim. The twelve-cylinder engine is of the "Knight," or sleeve-valve type, and the cost of the chassis alone exceeds $9,000. Until last week Their Majesties used a 1924 Daimler of exactly similar color...
...third car "for household and servants' use" is a gray Daimler sedan...
...million dollars from its hapless people. When driven out by the Chinese Nationalists (TIME, Sept. 24), he absconded with women and loot to Dairen, bought the hugest house, made it huger, and tried to settle down with 30 pleasingly proportioned young females of assorted races. It was no use-too much of a good thing-and grizzled Marshal Chang sailed off conquistadoring...
...persistence of the sect triumphed, and in 1792 the won exemption from military service in France, though Napoleon pressed then into hospital service during his campaigns. One branch of the Mennnonites holds that excommunication of husband or wife dissolves a marriage and that it is a grievious sin to use a razor or secure one's clothes by buttons Thus their men are all bearded and adept at doing and undoing hooks and eyes...
...Charles River last week, three Princeton crews beat three M. I. T. crews. Princeton did not use its mysterious new shell, The Flying Dutchman. This shell, anonymously given, appeared prepaid one day at the Princeton boat house. It is eight feet shorter than the average shell, and nine inches wider. Flatbottomed, it is designed to skim the water rather than cut it. When it goes fast, it rises out of the water like a motor boat...