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Word: pillion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flier released yesterday, the nation wide express service, which is preparing for an exodus of over to pillion and a quarter college men and women this month, suggested goal business methods would eliminate all cares...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Railway Express Advises Business-like Shipping | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

Driven a team of horses. Swung in a "swingboat" at a fair. Ridden pillion on a motorcycle. Witnessed either the Oxford-Cambridge boat race or the Lord Mayor's Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Trollope | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

George Bernard Shaw (74 last week) was asked if he was the tall, bearded man seen riding behind Col. Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence. Said he: "Good Heavens, man, I've got a perfectly good motorcycle of my own. . . . I've never ridden pillion in my life, though I shouldn't mind doing so in the ordinary way. But Lawrence's machine is such a great brute of a thing and he goes so fast I doubt whether I could hold on. Probably I'd be left sitting in the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 4, 1930 | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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