Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, cigar in hand, rode the rear seat of a tandem at the head of a bicycle cavalcade through Atlanta to popularize pedaling, declared at the finish that cycling not only saved gas and rubber but beautified the complexion...
Coach Barnaby has two doubles teams that seem to work together very well. Lyell and Peabody, although having been beaten in practice, shape up as the best, while Wilson and Ellis appear to be the next best tandem. Barnaby has a host of practically even players from which to plok his third doubles. They are Keith Symon, Lin Burton, Tom Sears, Jack Clarke, Aubrey Gouid, Don Daniels, and Jim Jenkins...
Except for German Army cars, everyone in Paris went on foot, on bicycles, or dived into the suffocatingly crowded Métro. The rich resurrected carriages and rode behind cockaded coachmen in barouches or victorias. One banker found a tandem bicycle; put his chauffeur up front, went through the motions of pedaling behind. By night Paris was dead except for the distant thunder of the R. A. F. blasting away at the Le Bourget or Villacoublay airfields...
Germany's Stuka is an ugly, husky, single-motored monoplane with an upswept and backswept wing. Under its glass solarium are seats for pilot and gunner in tandem. On the wing's leading edge are two fixed machine guns, firing aft is another on a swivel mount, all primarily used for protection from enemy pursuit. The machine-gun sight in front of the pilot is also his bomb sight and, with no more complicated sighting equipment than that, he is able to make dive bombing as accurate as the U. S. Navy and its Curtis, O2C Hell Diver...