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Word: awheel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...even the walking he had to do for the Post Office Department got to be too much. But while other postmen with the same problem met it by foot baths or retirement, Mailman Smith used his head. Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post. Footsore grey-coats throughout the land watched his progress, hoped that it spelled an end to bunions and broken arches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Scoot Business | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...this crisis; the qualities of sand are admirable, not only on icy streets but on icy sidewalks; not all the sidewalks have been sanded, and thrills await the traveller on the more remote byways. Quick snow removal, and a liberal application of sand, would make progress afoot and awheel less picturesque, but more efficient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNOWBOUND | 2/15/1936 | See Source »

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