Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curse off his conference. He promised that he would be the only Government representative on hand. He promised that he would raise no questions, make no suggestions. Conferees, he swore, would be free to do anything, decide anything they pleased. But up to last week's end Ford Motor Co. and the following trade associations had thumbed down Government-sponsored industrial co-operation by declining to send representatives to the Berry party...
Bullets for Speed. Commissar Ordzhonikidze saw to it that Comrade Stakhanov received a motor car and other luxuries unheard of for a Russian miner. After diligent search in other Soviet mines and factories, fresh Heroes of Labor were produced whose feats of "Stakhanovism" as played up by the Soviet Press became more & more stupendous...
Stakhanovite Celebrations. Workers of the World may not agree that the speed-up of Alexei Stakhanov is a good thing for the proletariat, but they unite in applauding the medals and the motor car Dictator Stalin has given Stakhanov, the silk lingerie and perfume he bought in Moscow for his wife. Individual Stakhanovites all receive fabulously high pay -the question suspiciously asked by Soviet workers being how long such exaggerated wages will be paid after any great number of workers have been induced to speed up. Afraid that "Stakhanovism" is in fact a continent-wide swindle of the proletariat...
...live in barracks because he had a wife at whose house he was supposed to spend the night. Nobody thought much of his occasional remark that "there are too many females on wheels in this world." For that matter the late, great "Lawrence of Arabia" who died in a motoring accident (TIME. May 27), was also a woman-hater, was also annoyed by women cyclists, and also used to tear over the roads. Five months ago Mortimer started suiting action to his words. In succession he stole several cars, all of which he used briefly in the same way. Overtaking...
...matter how calm he may appear, when a stutterer has difficulty getting a word out he is really suffering from a spasm. The spasm is a disturbance of the motor nerves that control speech. It may possibly be set off by expansion of the tiny blood vessels in the cerebral cortex where the speech control centres are located. Last summer experimenters at University of Michigan's laboratory of biolinguistics made 24 stutterers get down on their hands & knees, talk while crawling. In every case the stuttering was notably diminished, in some cases eliminated entirely-so long as the crawling...