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Word: carli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME seems always in the market for new words so here's one my little niece coined. She was excited about a man on the street trying to crank an old-model car. In describing it to her Grandpa she said, "It was just a 'jalopidated' old car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Tuesday, December 22, the pair of Yardlings, with several classmates held a Christmas party under the auspices of the newly formed "Roaring Forties" Club. Following the celebration, the pair strolled into the Square ostensibly bent on going to a hockey game in a borrowed car...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Escape Being Jailed for Drunken Offences | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

Unfortunately they picked the wrong car. The irate owner appeared shortly thereafter, followed by the arm of the law. They were further befuddled when removed from the car and put to bed in the Cambridge cooler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Escape Being Jailed for Drunken Offences | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

...Manchester, England last June a matronly market woman named Mary Agnes Smith, walking with her grandchild, paused at a crosswalk to let motor traffic go by. A lorry owned by Hall & Pickles rumbled from one direction, the motor car of a Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden purred from the other. Right before Mrs. Smith's horrified eyes they crashed. Mrs. Smith screamed to her grandchild to run, then collapsed. She says she has not felt right since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: £2,500 Scare | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Charlie Babb got this idea for a flying freight car from the demands of Latin-American customers serving mines, lumber camps and industries in localities accessible only by air. Most of these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flying Freight Car | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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