Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually stoic John Harvard blushed scarlet over a "B.U."-lettered waistcoat as seven car-loads of Terrier students touched off kerosene poured in the symbol "BU" and stretching from the 50 yard line southward to the 35. Firemen and Yard police armed with guns arrived to find seared, black turf facing their hoses...
Yard police were unaware of any subversive activity until a phone call informed them of the paint-and-poster attack. Several student night-owis reported seeing a car containing four students at various points along Mill Street...
Just before sunset one day last week, cool John Cobb of London squeezed his 200 lbs. into the cockpit of his two-engined, ice-cooled racing car. It was his last chance of the year: the rainy season was at hand on Utah's Bonneville salt flats. The cowling was bolted into place on top of him; a truck gave the car a push. At 20 m.p.h., the engine coughed and then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered...
After his big car (the same old one, remodeled) pushed over 350 miles an hour, it began shimmying and weaving; his head battered back & forth in the bubble cover. At the end of the measured mile, the electric timing eye clocked him at a record-breaking 385.6 m.p.h. He had to slow down to 250 before applying the brakes. Half an hour later, going northward with a light tail wind, he reached 403 m.p.h. After officials juggled the figures around for a few minutes, Cobb's record went on the books as 394.196 m.p.h. A reporter asked him whether...
Headstart. The Hudson Motor Car Co. kicked off the 1948 auto model season. It shut down its assembly lines to finish retooling for a "revolutionary" new model. Hudson plans to build a car only five feet high, yet with full headroom interior. Hudson, already delivering present models 90 days after order, anticipates a break in the sellers' market sometime in the next few months. It hopes to get into full production of its new model in several weeks, thus score a beat on its larger competitors...