Word: arrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water. The action resembling that of a swimmer as he turns on his back to float. The other whale well in the rear and swimming back up, would suddenly put on a burst of speed-full ahead, both engines-- as he ploughed a snowy, straight-as-an-arrow furrow through the Prussian-blue sea, which brought him swiftly forward to form that perfect, blissful contact with his mate...
...those interested presumed its power to be somewhere near that of Packard Co.'s mightiest, a 24-cylinder X-type engine, producing 1,250 h. p. No airplane engine was known to be more powerful. The Rolls-Royce engine was of the W-type, better known as Broad Arrow, a conventional British design used in the Napier engine to whoop Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave in his queer record-breaking motorcar over the sands at Daytona Beach at 231 m. p. h. last year...
...Bishop Murder Case (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cock Robin was the first to go. An arrow finished him. Then little Johnny Sprigg was shot in the top of his wig and Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner...
Besides a deeper and narrower radiator, smaller wheels, longer fenders, the most significant new Ford feature was "Rustless Steel" upon all exposed shining parts.* Another car to adopt a similar metal is Pierce-Arrow, using it on all nuts and bolts and many driving parts. Because not many steel companies possess Rustless Steel patents and equipment, the new demand caused great activity among those few. Central Alloy, for example, which together with Ludlum and Crucible shares the Krupp Stainless Steel patents, reported last week that this division was 14 weeks behind schedule...
...painted partly to resemble Scotch plaid; radiator caps are lower, some being merely dummies. One dummy cap is fashioned like a gunsight, perhaps to perfect the driver's aim. Some cars (Franklin, Packard, Graham) have abandoned ventilating slits in the hood and substituted small doors. The Pierce-Arrow, tenaciously traditional, retains its headlights on the fenders...