Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phelan version of Hughes' experience with steam-powered automobiles when he owned two of them in 1926 quotes Dietrich...
HOWARD preferred his Doble over his Stanley . . . but he was critical of both because they took too much time to get up steam, and they had relatively short non-stop cruising ranges. They consumed water at what Howard considered an inordinate rate, and had to stop about every 60 or 70 miles for a refill...
...want a steamer that will get under way in 20 seconds, starting from a cold stop," he stipulated. "With the present steamer, it takes from two to five minutes to get up steam. If I had a fire, I wouldn't be able to get them out of the garage. Second, I want a steamer that will run from Los Angeles to San Francisco on one filling of water...
...owned a Stanley and I had a Doble. The Doble was a great machine, but they both had two big flaws . . . For one thing it took anywhere up to five minutes to get up a head of steam, and the goddam garage could burn down in that time. And also you couldn't get more than 70 or 80 miles to a tankf ul of water...
...Steam from the huge mounds of spaghetti and meat sauce gently drifted toward the ceiling and softened the harsh fluorescent light in the crowded Lions Club in old Key West. The crowd chatter, much of it warmly spiced with Spanish-American syllabication, died. The speaker was a stumpy, smoothfaced man who was as far away from his home in Everett, Wash., as he could be. His Adlai Stevenson-era button-down blue shirt, neat striped tie, close-clipped sideburns and Trumanesque pungencies perhaps marked him as a man of the 1950s. "What I stand for," said Henry Jackson, "comes closer...