Word: feetfirst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conducted a personal experiment years ago to determine the reason why Pullman sleepers ride headfirst. . . . The time came for the porter to make up our berths. Seeing that all of them were made up with the head forward, I determined to be different, rode feetfirst, awoke in the morning with a heavy deposit of cinders from the open window in my eyes, ears, mouth, nose...
Professor Laird . . . now makes no mention of one prime practical consideration which helped convince Mr. Gray that recumbency . . . should be feetfirst; the materially lessened probability of severe injury in event of accident...