Word: clutches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepped on the gas to go around him." Then he laughed and pointed to the Vagabond's hoofs on the floorboards. "Dual controls," he said softly. "Don't freeze on them again." The Vagabond looked down, and sure enough, sprouting 'neath his ten-and-a-halves was a clutch and brake pedal of his very own. From there to Newton he kept his feet parked up by the heater...
Groans of an oppressed clutch are heard as the truck hauls away in vain at the wall. It aways but will not give in. All the boys are depressed. "Goez, no fun," is their thought. But a sub-foreman with a Daniel Boone cap on has I'idee du jour...
...meat packer, who welcomes Edna's husband into pre-War society among potted palms and ottomans. As Edna's sister on the deck of the doomed excursion boat, Eastland, Miss Skinner is at her best. Although the only stage effect is a swaying rail for her to clutch, she projects the full horror of the sinking ship. Later, as a sculptress who is Edna's husband's mistress, she contributes a sympathetic, plausible portrait that helps to save the story from bathos...
...officially break the record because his clutch gave out and he was unable to make the required return trip over the measured course, but Captain Eyston traveled faster than man has ever traveled on land before. He was clocked over the first leg of his course at 309.6 m.p.h. Said the 40-year-old English captain, who raises chickens as a hobby: "I just sight her along the marker line and she pretty much steers herself...
Chevrolet comes in the same two series as 1937-Master and Master Deluxe. Major mechanical change: new-type clutch based on a diaphragm principle used in heavy-duty railroad couplings but never before in automobiles, said to be more rugged, lighter, easier to operate, engaging more uniformly. The body has a redesigned hood, larger luggage compartment...