Word: hood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cadillacs and La Salles will continue substantially unchanged. But La Salle with its wedge-shaped submarine hood and flaring fenders profoundly affected the design of the 1935 Automobile...
...much like its predecessor in the Model 40 series. The motor is practically unchanged because, as the Founder said in a signed advertisement, ''We have not learned how to build a better one." Major improvements are in line and ride. Bodies are heavily streamlined, tires are bigger, hood louvers are set in a horizontal line. Like many another motormaker who learned from Walter P. Chrysler's Airflow models of last year Mr. Ford moved his engine forward about 8 in. over the front axle, thus equalizing the distribution of weight. In addition he lengthened the old transverse...
...series of lower-medium-priced cars during the year, giving it four complete lines and 25 body types. The new small Buick is built on a 117-in. wheelbase, powered with a straight eight motor, and designed like the bigger models with a sharp V radiator, long narrow hood, broad fenders...
Grant should have full credit, says Mc-Cormick, for the conception and execution of the 1864 campaign that ended the Civil War—"the most comprehensive campaign of all time." His plan included Sherman's March to the Sea, the destruction of Hood's army in Tennessee. As commander-in-chief of the Army of the Potomac, he had to fight not only the redoubtable Lee but his own inefficient, stupid or untrustworthy lieutenants. Only two of Grant's generals whom Biographer McCormick praises are Sherman and Sheridan: Sherman was a good tactician but a poor fighter...
...hard-headed plant physiologist. Later he abandoned biology for psychology. He believed that knowledge of psychic phenomena had been impeded on one hand by emotional fervor and on the other by unreasonable skepticism. He knew that to most scientists the very words telepathy and clairvoyance smacked of vaudeville hood-winkery and fat. dark women. But if telepathy and clairvoyance existed, he reasoned, they should be accessible to scientific approach. He went to Duke's Professor McDougall, got a post at the university and facilities for research...