Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train of the Canadian Pacific-$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only 100 miles east of Vancouver. Cause: derailment or broken car wheel. And the operators of the Canadian Pacific- than which no railroad is better known throughout the world-how were they to feel? They felt the more distressed because of their amazing record of having transported about $25,000,000 of silk every month for 20 years without damage to a single silken...
When Mr. Conrad Aiken titles the present tutorial system at Harvard a "fifth wheel" he is not entirely condemning it. He is commenting on the difficulty in cataloguing the value of the system, not emphasizing its demerits. No one realizes better than the tutor, unless it be his tutee, how delicate is the machine of operation, and how extremely intangible are the aims of the tutorial system, especially in its bloom of youth. One vaguely refers to it as a helping hand, a coordinating influence, a personal guide; and it is all of these things, but it is also...
...Thus far," he continued, "I find that the tutorial system does not relate closely to the rest of the curriculum. It is rather a fifth wheel. The chief disadvantage is that it lacks checking up. I feel, however, that my short experience as tutor does not wholly entitle me to such a dogmatic opinion. The ideal system would be to leave all responsibility to the tutor. There would be no examinations, and lectures would be optional. The tutor would have the final decision as to whether the student has passed...
Gluck auf! auf wiedersehn! thin-faced Germans, expatriates in Moscow, bared their heads in last week's chilly air and cried good wishes to a small, chunky blonde girl, who dressed in grey knickers, sat at the wheel of a smart tourist car. She, Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, Germany's post-War industrial tsar, had broken a transeurasian tour at Moscow...
Died. Isadora Duncan, 47, famed danseuse; in Nice. One end of her red scarf caught in the front wheel of her motor; she was dragged from her seat and instantly killed. On her bier, her chauffeur laid a huge bouquet of flowers representing a month's earnings...