Word: space
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since Daimler invented the internal combustion engine and adapted it to personalized transportation back in 1887, there has been no essential change in automobile design. People still use twice as much space on the road as the car requires, because today's operator cannot see how much room he needs . . . [He] skids off the road in his front-end-heavy blunderbus and involuntarily kills and maims more than a million people inside or outside...
Second, the Council might well set up a Steering Committee to trim and space out some of the less important schemes which bog down Council agenda. The surgery performed by such a committee could be subject to Council review...
Presently the philosophy Department will investigate me to find out what I have learned in Philosophy 75 these last four months. Intensive preparation for this event leaves me no time to write a column, so I shall turn over this space to the members of the House Un-American Activities Committee, who are fortunate enough not to be subjected to investigations of any sort themselves. The following quotations I dredge up from a pamphlet called "Communism and Education, the third in a series on the Communist conspiracy and its influences in this country as a whole on religion, on education...
Beef & Peanuts. Wilson drives his own Cadillac in from Longmeadow, his rambling fieldstone house on Island Lake, Mich., burning up the highway like a preoccupied Barney Oldfield. Longmeadow is comfortably livable, with garage room for five G.M. cars and wall space for scores of pictures of the Wilson farms, horses, cattle, their six married sons & daughters and ten grandchildren...
...Meaning that the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder fills 7.25 times more space before it is compressed by the piston than after it is compressed for ignition by the sparkplug...