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Word: autoists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tucson, Ariz., Marjorie Volke set out for a drive, noticed a traffic ticket under her automobile's windshield wiper. Without stopping her car she reached for the ticket, skidded into a hydrant, released a geyser. Autoist Volke's bill (for the hydrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...accidents are happily rare, but they do happen, and can be partly attributed to the confusion caused by a medley of traffic lanes. Around the subway kiosk the constant presence of parked cabs, and the buses and street cars which stop there, make it an especially dangerous point. The autoist himself is in an unenviable position. Having voluntarily relinquished the use of an auto because of its inevitable annoyances at Harvard, I can speak for both motorist and pedestrian on this point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In The Nick of Time | 5/10/1932 | See Source »

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