Detroit
[di'trɔit]
Definition
(noun.) the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor.
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Examples
- The great paper at that time was the Detroit Free Press. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Soon the Grand Trunk Railroad was extended from Toronto to Port Huron, at the foot of Lake Huron, and thence to Detroit, at about the same time the War of the Rebellion broke out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Drifting after a time from Louisville, Edison made his way as far north as Detroit, but, like the famous Duke of York, soon made his way back again. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- George Pullman, who then had a small shop at Detroit and was working on his sleeping-car, made Edison a lot of wooden apparatus for his chemicals, to the boy's delight. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Every morning I had two large baskets of vegetables from the Detroit market loaded in the mail-car and sent to Port Huron, where the boy would take them to the store. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- During my stay in Detroit there was an election for city officers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In 1860, just before the war broke out there came to the train one afternoon, in Detroit, two fine-looking young men accompanied by a colored servant. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Besides, his leisure hours in Detroit he would be able to spend at the public library. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After leaving the junction just outside of Detroit, I brought in the evening papers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After the railroad had been opened a short time, they put on an express which left Detroit in the morning and returned in the evening. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One day the manager of the _Detroit Free Press_ told him he might have some three hundred pounds of old type that had been used up. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In April following I was ordered to Detroit, Michigan, where two years were spent with but few important incidents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He made a friend of one of the compositors of the _Detroit Free Press_, and got him to show him the proofs of the paper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The histories of the abandoned Detroit and Hudson river tunnels are object lessons of the difficulties encountered in this class of work. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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