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Word: motoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motorcycle-propelled beach chair complete with liveried chauffeur propels one dowager around Newport at a rate of 70 miles per gallon. Younger Newporters tear around on motor scooters and bicycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gas Pains | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...have in use two tractors: one 'Caterpillar' 4O-h.p. diesel, 1937 model, and another a John Deere diesel model 'A', I also have a 10-h.p. diesel motor for other purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Advanced practice includes an hour of night flying and a little instrument flying. But there can be no practice in what glider pilots dread, even the most experienced -bad weather. For there is no substitute for a motor in escaping a storm. A student's last week of practice is devoted to troop carriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: At Twentynine Palms | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Eden took Molotov under a large black umbrella and led the way to nearby motor cars. The Mirror photographer got pictures of the great occasion which were "officially confiscated." Police officials regarded the lamb story with strong suspicion, grilled the photographer and conducted a discreet inquiry of the entire Mirror staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MR. SMITH GOES TO LONDON | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Steven Hannagan, the man who made Miami famous with his beach and girl pictures, last week landed Ford Motor Co.'s public-relations account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freer Trade | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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