Word: wheel
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Many a strange and wonderful thing happens in California. When the Sacramento River near Rio Vista?40 mi. northeast of Oakland?receded fortnight ago, the headless body of a young Hindu was found sitting bolt upright, chained to a tractor wheel. He was identified as Sant Ram Pande, 32, engineering student at the University of California. The method of his identification was remarkable. Only three weeks prior he had insisted that his fingerprints be recorded by the State Bureau of Criminal Identification. He had then set out to find the slayers of 13 Hindus who have been murdered...
...serve history fully, a fourth name should be added to the hyphenated group, that of Schoellkopf, the family which has been carried to wealth and power by Niagara Falls. In 1850 Jacob Fred Schoellkopf started a flour mill above Niagara Falls, powered by an old-fashioned water wheel. In 1890 the use of water for electric power was introduced and he put in a plant, made long term contracts of 40 to 50 years, but up to the time of his death in 1899 no big returns were received. His sons, however, expanded his power business, provided many plants along...
That slender, long-nosed spitfire, Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet-Eye") Butler, had made another speech. In Philadelphia he had told a club meeting this story: A friend of his recently roared through the Italian countryside with Mussolini at the wheel of the motorcar. A little girl ran across the road, was smacked to the ground, the life crushed out of her. When General Butler's friend protested at their not stopping, Mussolini said: "What is one life in the affairs of a State...
...Budd Wheel...
...lady once informed in detail of the workings of a bicycle, how the motive power was transferred by chain and cogs from the pedals to the rear wheel, reflected and inquired, "I see; but what makes the front wheel go?" The workings of the CRIMSON candidate is an open secret; hundreds of him have pushed open the green doors of University Hall: from the top floor of the Baker Library across the Charles to the inner formidable recesses of Langdell Hall he has wended his way almost daily throughout the academic years. Less perhaps is known by those who serve...