powder train
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"With the rapidity of a burning powder train," Davis asserts, "information flows out of the woodwork, past the manager's door and the janitor's mop closet, through steel walls or construction-glass partitions."
From Time Magazine Archive
Quick as the flash of a powder train, the uproar spread to South America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, with caution, he pushed ahead, until he gained once more the road leading back to the temporary camp occupied by the powder train and the detachment guarding it.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
On the following day the powder train moved onward once more.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
As the powder train approached Wikelipe, Kee Lung went ahead to find Ivan Snokoff.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
