Word: torsion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheap ($700 f.o.b. France), amazingly efficient new Citroën that stole the Paris show. Features: a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine, that is said to get more than 60 miles to the gallon (at an average speed of 38 m.p.h.); front-wheel drive, all-round torsion-bar suspension, a fabric top that rolls up like a windowshade. Perhaps the strangest-looking car at the Paris show was the Dyna-Panhard's "Dynavia" whose ultra-Studebakerish use of glass gave it the air of an airplane cockpit (its two-cylinder engine gets 30 miles to the gallon...
Brown: "What is the definition of the word 'torsion...
...mummy case dated thereabouts, and discovered in Egypt, was made of it. But until recently the only glues available were starch glue from tapioca, blood albumin glue from slaughtered cattle and other animal glues. None of these was an adhesive that would "really stand up and fight with tension, torsion, or shear...