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Word: motor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas, the number of farmers pre paring to motor through their State and across the Kaw River to the convention was estimated by a Topeka observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Crusade? | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...preferred to answer questions about the motor trip which she is making around the world, and about the handsome, strapping Swedish cinema camera man who is motoring with her, Herr C. A. Soederstroem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fraulein and Swede | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Once, at Urga, Mongolia," said Frau lein Stinnes, "we had to pay 140 marks ($336) for 106 litres of gasoline (28 gallons)." From San Francisco petite Motorist Stinnes proposed to sail for Valparaiso, Chile, whence she will motor northward to Washington, D. C., and thence proceed home to Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fraulein and Swede | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...foot power, for a minute and a half at least, seems solved. There remains the problem of how to get started. At present the automobile acts as starter. Later Inventor White plans to take off from hillsides after installing a two and a half horsepower compressed air motor to get him up and give the 100 "wing flaps per minute necessary for flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Ornithopter | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Special with Jimmy Gleason driving led most of the way with Tony Gullota in a Stutz Special giving him a fight. Going into the last fifty miles the pit called in Gullota, and he stopped on his next runaround. "Gas line clogged!" he shouted, jumping out. Gleason signalled that motor trouble was forcing him to stop for gas. A big red car with "39" painted on the hood and tail was in front now. By looking at the programs the people in the stands made out that the driver was someone named Lou Meyer. Gullota who had gotten started again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bandits, Racers | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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