Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first three. Optional at $102.25 extra on the low-priced Special Series 40, not available on higher-priced models, is an automatic gear-shift-a lever at right angles to the driving post just below the steering wheel. One movement is necessary, all others are automatic, eliminating 80% of clutch operation, cutting engine r.p.m. 18% by a new fourth speed. Also new is coil-type rear-springing...
Their initial cost is some 50% more than that of conventional gasoline engines. Newest types do not work directly on the transmission but generate electric power that propels a vehicle without clutch or gear shift. Last year New Jersey's Public Service Coordinated Transport bought 27 Diesel-electrics from Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co. for $12,000 each and at once put them into passenger service. Since then the New Jersey fleet has rolled up 1.000,000 carefully tabulated, experimental miles and the company's enthusiastic report of Diesel results put new bees in many a busman...
...written during the last decade. His later poems, which in general hew to the line of modern Irish minor verse, in their essential scope are no advance over his earlier pseudo-madrigals. All arise from and express similar, unimportant sensations: casual pangs felt by a sensitive nature in the clutch of existence...
Nineteen enthusiasts participated in the tournament which brought out, besides the fact that the Yardlings have some real Pong luminaries, the proof that the penholder grip has far reaching possibilities. Always frowned on by champion table netmen, this grip showed itself to be equal to the regulation clutch...
...armistice while the outcome of the war is still in doubt, and the erection of a moderate government to avoid the excesses either side might commit if victorious. However dream-like and impossible this solution may prove to be, it is at least a straw for Europe to clutch...