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Word: flivvered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas, lacks confirmation in view of the spirit exhibited by a dozen Indiana students last week-end. It seems that the students were imbued with the desire to witness the Harvard-Indiana football game, but lacking funds, they were forced to make the thousand-mile trip via foot, flivver, truck, or anything that came along headed in the general direction of the Atlantic Ocean. They saw the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Sleek and slender as its sponsor, the new Ford Six was motored out of the Detroit factory last week as Henry Ford & Edsel watched. The elder man smiled contentedly as it was placed beside the fifteenth million model T flivver. Its maximum speed is 60 miles per hour. And it was the first product of the Detroit plant since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ford's Power | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

When Henry Ford marketed his ten millionth flivver, a musician composed a symphonic poem to celebrate the event (TIME, April 25). Edward Phillips Oppenheim has now published his 100th novel,* and though not one of his creations has been a flivver, somebody should salute Mr. Oppenheim with at least a small trumpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Number 100 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Rapid City police learned that a wrecked flivver had been found near their town with these words scrawled on the windshield: "I do not choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Patrick left his flivver running, for the emergency, and hurried forward with his small black grip at the ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country Doctor | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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