Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Sir Alan Cobham had been forced by a faulty spark plug to volplane to earth near Nuneaton. Deftly he skimmed beneath a high tension line carrying 6,000 volts. Then he discovered that he had no wrench with which to repair his motor. Vexed, he walked three miles until he found an autoist who loaned him a suitable wrench. His plane repaired, he sped to Manchester and civic glory. Meanwhile a Manchester crowd, informed by telephone of the contretemps, burst into incredulous laughter, refused for some minutes to believe that the great hero-airman of Britain could have come...
...often that you see motor after motor full of fine ladies and smart gentlemen rolling up in front of the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. But last week you saw them. It continued for three days. One day they rolled up twice...
There were few freaks on exhibit: an amphibious Peugeot, a motor boat on wheels, ready to take to the water by a simple shifting of gear; the Bleriot wood-burning car (TIME, Oct. 11) generating gas from fagots; a Fiat with an oak-mahogany paneling, interior drive, 26-h.p.; an electric Parville, claimed to run 930 miles without a recharged battery...
...This here's Hawg Eye, air y'u lost?" Such was the soul harrowing information garnered by C. G. Croncis, an assistant in the Paleontology department of the University, when he ventured a question of a group of bill billies after losing his way on a motor trip through the Ozark Mountains last summer...
...shaking torchlight. He would kill the woman who writhed on the hide; he would sprinkle her blood on the heads of the warriors to a noise of drums. Drums-but was it drums that beat among the trees, roaring up the dirt path, nearer in the night? A motor-cycle leaped out of the circle of woods; another followed; white men with pistols untied the writhing woman, took the witch-man, the warriors into Durban, tried them in court and put them in jail, saying that they had been guilty of disorderly conduct, at midnight, in the jungle, while...