Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other would have thought of emitting posthumous messages to Congress every morning in or out of session. Mr. Coolidge is an original. He is the first man ever put four wheel brakes on a Jew's harp. He has almost invented a silent loud speaker. And he is a perfect master of the enematic style-a squirt of warm water in the place of breakfast...
...unknown quatrain by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) came to light when an 18th Century potter's wheel was presented to Manhattan's Museum of the Peaceful Arts. Attached to the wheel, which had inspired Longfellow at the age of 16, were these lines: No handicraftsman's art Can to our art compare; We potters make our pots Of what we potters...
...During the funeral of William Cornelius Van Home, second president of Canadian Pacific Railway, most outstanding of its builders, every wheel in the vast CPR system was stopped...
Another momentous period of the year has come to a close. Outside of the Institution of marriage, the machinery of the organized Church, the intricacies of modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded...
Last week this hero's wheel of Fortune gyrated madly, splintered, cracked and broke. The people of Buenos Aires, the Army and Navy of Argentina rose in a joyous rather than bloody revolution, cast their sick and aged hombre out and down. They had watched him take their overwhelming vote of two years ago as a lcense to behave as an autocrat, as a dictator more absolute and infinitely more unreasonable than Signor Benito Mussolini. Being staunch Democrats, the people could stand such tyranny no longer-especially in view of Argentina's current business slump, "hard times...