Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reverse de engine, th'ew de levuh back Twenty seb'm jumbos jump'd de track, He holluhd to de fiuhman, say: "Jim, yuh better jump, 'cause two locomotives is about tuh bump...
Last week for her maiden flight she rose before dawn, went with her husband to an airfield in Detroit. With famed Balloonist Edward J. Hill they took off at 5 a. m., drifted nine hr., came down with a bump in a field near Thamesville, Ont. 58 mi. away. Bruised when her companions landed on top of her, Balloonist Piccard was more concerned about an angel cake she had taken along. "I really don't know what happened to it," she said. "We didn't have a chance to eat it. I guess it got crushed...
...m.p.h. than the old high-bodied model did at 50 m.p.h. This necessity resulted in the major mechanical innovation of the year-independent front wheel suspension. Heretofore front springs had to be made stiffer than rear ones to hold the front wheels rigid for steering. A front wheel bump tended to jounce the car up & down on the rear springs. To overcome this obstacle and soften the front springs engineers have now mounted each front wheel on springs which act independently, thus replacing the rigid front axle...
Last week toothless little St. Gandhi writhed in embarrassment at news from New Delhi. A brand new automobile, ordered on approval, had gone roaring down the road 70 m.p.h., hit a bump, overturned. Out rolled Serpent Goddess Nilla, bruised, battered, but bitterly determined to lead her own life...
...population is dying out from the top as well as from the bottom. Winter is so terrible up there and their stock has so petered out that the oncoming of fall is called the suicide season. The old people just can't face another winter and so they bump themselves off. . . . Down the road from me a piece lives a family which it would be extremely difficult to disentangle. The father has had children by his wife, his housekeeper and his eldest daughter. But this is by no means usual, for generally the Downeaster is too stingy to have...