Word: levering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London's American Chamber of Commerce heard William Hulme Lever Viscount Leverhulme, governor of world-spraddling Lever Brothers, Ltd. (Lux, Lifebuoy Soap), tell about the perplexity of efficiency experts over a certain laborer, the only worker in a factory to pull, not push, his wheelbarrow. Asked why, the laborer said: "Well, guv'nor, hi 'ates the ight of the bloomin' thing...
This great social change, when combined with the moral indignation against graft now communicated to the poorer classes formerly dependent on Tammany, provides a powerful lever for the uprooting of an institution that has become a symbol "for all that is crooked, slimy, unpatriotic, and sinister in politics in any machine ridden city." Starved of national and city patronage, riddled by internal discussion and confronted by a real District Attorney, some leaders of the Wigwam may soon turn the Bridge of Sighs into a Tam-many wailing wall...
...belligerent rights. "This is a monstrous and disgraceful decision," cried the Herald. "Recognition of belligerent rights was a concession-a bribe if you like-to be paid for the withdrawal of volunteers, after the withdrawal. Now an even more far-reaching form of recognition is given in advance. The lever which might have secured withdrawal is flung away...
Hudson & Hudson Terraplane are both longer, lower, sleeker. Hudson comes as an eight or a six. Terraplane as a six. Both have an improved version of the electric gearshift lever on the steering column which was the first of its kind ever mass-produced when introduced two years...
Graham has been dressed up more radically than any other 1938 model, with fenders and radiator grille both showing a pronounced forward rake, headlights faired into the front of the fenders. Doors are extrawide. Dashboard has a tacho-speedometer, showing r.p.m. as well as m.p.h. Optional is a gearshift lever running out from beneath the dash...