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People are not expected to cheat in the Wellesley bike race. Perhaps this is because it is quite difficult to chest. In fact just about the only way to circumvent the law is to grab the tailboard of a passing truck; or have a friend over the next hill with a motorcycle...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...jiffy the Gauthiers were setting up shop (they pay $35 a year for a stall, plus 10? for each day they actually use it). Gene backed up to the curb and began to arrange the vegetables and fruit on packing boxes, along the running board, and on the tailboard. When all was in order, he left Winnifred in charge and went to a nearby lunchroom for a belated breakfast (pork chop, pineapple pie, coffee with plenty of sugar). His wife went to eat later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Market Day | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...moved pretty fast. Sometimes he got lifts, sharing the rear hump of a burro with a friendly peon or clinging to the bouncing tailboard of a truck. He walked a lot, too, and one by one he put the boundaries behind him-Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico. Six months after leaving San Jose, he was walking down the streets of San Antonio, Tex., gaping at the tall buildings, the glittering stream of automobiles. Then a cop picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Vfctor Manuel & Heaven | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Some of the "marginal tribes" have faded into legend; some have taken a bumpy ride on the tailboard of civilization, and a few still follow their ancient way of life. Ethnologists cherish them all as significant "fossil cultures." The ancestors of modern, civilized man, they believe, also passed through comparable stages many thousands of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Childhood of Man | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...Wood Industries, Inc.: a garbage truck body with a hydraulic ram tailboard which, as garbage is dumped in at the rear, presses it forward, squeezes garbage juice into a tank. Claims: dry garbage burns better, squashed garbage takes up less room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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