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...probably have to carry a spare boat with him because only one of the two boats was able to finish out the race. There may, possibly be a place for Mr. Wood as legislative courier. He can hover near the New York water-front, engines warming up, and then whisk a Senator to Albany in time to cast the deciding vote. Aside from this, his motor boat performances can be nothing more ban amusing and ornamental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEED STUFF | 5/27/1925 | See Source »

...building for the University of Pittsburgh, 680 feet of towering steel and stone will make that university the highest seat of learning in the country. It will be one story higher than the Woolworth building, two higher than the Metropolitan Tower, and sixteen powerful elevators will whisk students from class to class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOING UP! | 11/13/1924 | See Source »

...gives the garden rake to the neighbors, it is a simple enough matter for the father to drop in on them after supper and explain that the lad knew not what he did. If they are nice neighbors, they will surrender the implement without argument and the owner can whisk the leaves off the lawn next morning as planned. Not so simple is the Government's task of recovering its celebrated Oil Reserves, No. 1 and No. 3*, leased respectively by onetime Secretary of the Interior Fall, in a spirit commonly described as mischievous, to Edward L. Doheny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: At Los Angeles | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...Then?whisk!?and Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were back at the Capital again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Oct. 6, 1924 | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...circumstances is magically accomplished in the best manner of melodrama. Matters seem to be mending until a vicious paternal grandfather appears and essays to take the child from her by law, alleging that she is not fit to rear her own. By a fortunate coincidence she is enabled to whisk the lad away to a friendly haven in England but only with the understanding that she never see him again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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