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Word: carburetors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dick Harlow's valuable and versatile end, who in the last few games has not been satisfied with acting as the spark plug of the Crimson team, but has taken over the duties of magnate, carburetor and generator in the bargain, suffered a muscle bruise in the Princeton mud Saturday. The injury is not serious but will be just enough to keep him out of crucial workouts for the Penn struggle...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: Muscie Bruise Keeps MacKinney From Crucial Practice Sessions | 11/6/1940 | See Source »

...spot in the hemisphere they can still call their own. For service in the swamps and woods of the southern U. S., in the arroyos of the Mexican border, in the Rockies and the Appalachians, the man in the McClellan saddle thinks he can wipe the eye of any carburetor trooper, may yet have a chance to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Horses on Wheels | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

This spray is said to burn more smoothly and cheaply than a carburetor mixture, to make possible the use of less volatile gasolines, to prevent icing under any conditions. One of the first German planes shot down last fall in Scotland was found to have a fuel-injection device. In the U. S., Continental Motors Corp. now equips 75-h.p. engines for light planes with the first commercial U. S. fuel-injection system. Army & Navy technologists are experimenting with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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