Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year age today, Soldiers Field was covered with snow, and the baseball aspirants faced another two weeks of monotonous indoor practice. Today, however, the greensward presents a springlike aspect. It is still rather soft, but the ministrations of Mr. Enwright and his gasoline tractor are fast remedying that fault...
...Even after the armistice, when a board of line officers got together to formulate their specifications for an ideal caterpillar tractor for divisional artillery, the highest speed pictured in their most optimistic dreams was twelve miles an hour. In the meantime, the Holt Manufacturing Co. has already produced an ordnance tractor that can attain a speed of 30 miles an hour and can negotiate a 45-degree slope without difficulty. Incidentally, it can be driven submerged in water up to the driver's chin...
...when guns will be melted into tractor plows is not yet in sight; but the time has arrived when poison gas is put to constructive use. The army chemists have joined the ranks of those scientists who are endeavoring; by taking thought, to add a year to man's three score and ten. They have discovered curative properties in chlorine, mustard gas and lewisite...
...André Citroen, now in this country, will investigate the possibilities of adding his tractor equipment to cars bought by American farmers. He has recently perfected a combination of the automobile and the tractor in a vehicle that can work the fields and carry the farmer to town...
...blending of poetry and prose, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Phineas Fogg himself, with all his mathematical intensity of purpose, would never have girdled the earth from North to South instead of from East to West; and if he had he would never have entrusted himself to a tractor as a means of locomotion. Phineas had a sense of the proprieties...