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Word: jinrikishas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Clubs who were having tea with his wife at the White House. He sent to Congress a special message urging the appropriation of $500 as compensation for personal injuries suffered year ago by "Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg, nationality indeterminable ... as a result of a collision between a public jinrikisha in which she was riding and a U. S. Marine Corps Ambulance on Seymour Road, Shanghai, China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt on Roosevelt | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...seemed to be no room for the vice consul in the limousine which took Minister Ariyoshi to Nanking Station to join dozens of Chinese government officials and prosperous Nanking merchants waiting for the most popular train in China, the week-end express to Shanghai. Vice Consul Kuramoto signalled a jinrikisha, stepped in, and that was the last anyone saw of him for five days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Interludicrous | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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