Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from September to June, plus a jammed-up twelve week summer session, with no reading period and no time for tutorial work. They have not given us the time for tutorial in the summer--that is the crux of the matter. Instead, they have shaped something like a round wheel with a slice lopped off of one side, and asked us to make the cart go even faster than ever before...
Tires. In Detroit, a sneak thief stole a wheel and tire from a minister's car, parked in front of a hotel. The minister went to get a policeman. When he got back to his car, another wheel and tire were gone...
WASHINGTON--Mounting indications that Japan may halt her sweep down across the southwest Pacific and wheel about for an attack upon Russia tonight stirred urgent demands that all possible military aid be given to the Soviet armies...
Cornell and Princeton, the only two teams in the circuit which were able to take the measure of Harvard twice, may consider themselves well off. The Cambridge quintet has been improving steadily and appears to have found in red-headed, lanky Hugh Hyde the balance wheel it needed. Although held scoreless at Princeton, the six-foot four inch sophomore has been in double figures against Columbia, Penn and Yale to give the Crimson its best offense in several years. By topping the Elis, 60 to 47, Harvard created for itself the mathematical possibility of finishing a high...
...talk with the most remarkable of them all could only have strengthened his desire. He met Mohandas Gandhi shortly after noon in the marbled and gilded Calcutta mansion of Gandhi's rich cotton-milling backer, Ghanshyamdas Birla. Throughout the conversations, Gandhi spun yarn on a charkha (hand spinning wheel). He talked with the Gissimo through an interpreter, with vivid Mme. Chiang in English. After 80 minutes the Chinese visitors dined, while the Mohandas, as usual, abstained from mid-day eating. The conference continued through Gandhi's evening meal of unleavened cakes, boiled vegetables, goat's milk...