Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then over the same route again. For 52 hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort, the ship touched ground gently at her starting point, Istres Aerodrome near Marseilles. For 8,026 kilometres (4,987 miles) Costes & Codos had ridden a closed circuit with one load of fuel. The pleased French Government gave them an $8,000 bonus for breaking the closed-course record, which Ferrarin and Del Prete (Italians) held with 4763.7 miles...
...Marie Curie, 62, co-discoverer of radium made known that since her U. S. visit (TIME, Oct. 28) she had ridden horseback in Paris thrice weekly with her daughter, on her doctor's recommendation...
Indianapolis. The Republican party, hard-ridden by the Ku Klux Klan, stumbled and fell in defeat as for the first time in 16 years the city chose a Democratic mayor, Reginald Sullivan. In similar disrepute was the Klan-Republican alliance in many another Indiana municipality, including Senator James Eli Watson's own Rushville where Republicans were turned out, Democrats turned into office...
...York color, world-wide as well as local, has won the day over intelligence. It proves the truth of Professor Roger's advice to have two pair of pants, for on his haberdashery almost alone has Mayor Walker ridden to fame and fortune. In Boston haberdashery failed to assist a candidate for in the reign of mud that preceded the election few presses could endure. So Curley is in the saddle again. It may be hoped he will not break the camel's back...
...bull market on which the country has ridden in "Republican prosperity" the past eight years is a commonplace. The break of the past week has been a debacle. Whether the prosperity is to continue, or is to turn into a period of relative depression is hardly to be foretold, but the greatest stock crisis in history can hardly be designated as a technical readjustment. Whether the decline in what admittedly was an inflated market was touched off by the hammering of bear fools that finally tapped a layer of stop loss orders, whether the some what uncertain business conditions that...