Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford and Citroen have made marvelous machines at very reasonable prices,'' said a Ministry of Agriculture statistician, "but until they invent a traction engine that can be eaten when it is past its usefulness, our good peasants will stick to their horses...
Score--Harvard 4, B. U. 0. Goals First period Wood, unassisted (3.22); Cross pass from Stubbs (6.22); Wood pass from Putnam (3.29), Cunningham, unassisted (19.18) Penalties--Garrison (tripping), Bergholtz (tripping), Wood (high stick), Elliot (tripping), Bergholtz (tripping), Elliot (tripping), Stubbs (tripping), Garrison (board check), Stubbs (tripping), Putnam (tripping), Elliot (tripping), Referees--Joe Foley and Jack Hutchins. Time Three 20-minute periods...
...state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...
...Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio of 8 to 1. From a half mile height it can glide four miles in still...
...involves, however, some excellent villainy on the part of the niece's mother (Beatrice Terry, niece of the late great Dame Ellen Terry) as well as homely humors by her grandmother (Mrs. Jacques Martin). Mr. Connolly is frequently ludicrous as the thwarted swell who buys a malacca stick but is forced to hide it in his trouser leg until he gets out of sight of his less extravagant relatives...