Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hubcap, a slightly slanted V-type radiator and the generous width of its glass panels. Its streamlined fenders will not be so distinguishable from its competitors this year as they would have been last. Prices: $585-$695 for the 66-h. p., 110-in. wheelbase model; $68s-$795 for the 72-h. p., 114-in. model...
...sell his first batch of Auburns. Salesman Cord simply "dressed them up." That was one thing he thought his public want-ed?snappy looks. Into the first model whose production he supervised he put another ingredient?speed to match the looks. Also, for he is as smart a mechanic as a salesman, he added engineering improvements: the first convertible body was on an Auburn (1928): the first cheap straight-eight was an Auburn...
Stewart-Warner Corp. exhibited a new brake system, as yet not in use on any but test cars. The principle is to use the momentum of the car to check the speed. On the Stewart-Warner model this operates mechanically with a clutch attached to the brake pedal. Frederick I. Libby, young automotive engineer of Bronxville, N. Y. is working on a similar brake operated by hydraulic pressure...
Stillman Infirmary when it was built in 1901 was the most modern and efficient college dispensary in the country. It served as a model for other university infirmaries and yielded excellent service to Harvard. Since that time many improvements have been developed in medical architecture and the survey of Dr. Worcester two years ago illustrated its marked inadequacy. There are no sun porches, no elevator will hold a bed, no bed can be taken through the narrow doors, and there is no real surgical room, although one has been devised which will serve. While the care of those with minor...
...when he decided to become a writer, went into the woods to live and think. His first book of stories, Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, cocked many a critical eye at him in friendly fashion. Poet fundamentally, he makes little money, most of that by his stories. Best model for good writing, he thinks, is folk tales. Other books: Fishmonger's Fiddle, Silver Circus; (verse:) Hips and Haws, Collected Poems...