Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 16). Last week the American Automobile Association issued less vital but more controversial statistics when it announced that a survey of 10,000 persons between 20 and 40 years old in 35 U. S. cities had proved clearly that men are better drivers than women. Their average wheel grip measured 114 lb. against 63 lb. for women. They could withstand 58 units of light, whereas women could withstand only 55.1, and could recover in 5.55 sec. from glare which blinded women for 7.47 sec. Other tests indicated that men generally have quicker reactions, better hearing, better concentration when...
...that offered. But the okapi did not immediately leave Buta. In view of the indifferent success a few zoos have had in keeping them, Dr. Blair decided to let his okapi become accustomed to civilization before moving him. At last, late this May, the Buta okapi boarded a side-wheel steamer at Stanleyville and started down the Congo River. At Leopoldville, where the rapids begin, he was shuttled into a boxcar, and at Matadi, at the mouth of the Congo, on July i went aboard a Dutch ship bound for Antwerp...
...sidedness of this year's series caused the more irreverent members of the daily sporting press to surpass themselves in humorous abuse at the loser's expense. In the opinion of Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram: "Sopwith is a palooka back of the wheel." "Sopwith," observed Jack Miley in the New York Daily News, "is now only three challenges and a goatee behind the late Sir Thomas Lipton...
Towards evening they pulled up on a deserted country road a few miles north-west of Boswell, Okla. and decided to wait for dark. Farmer Trimmer, a silent man, was-still at the wheel, with Pete Traxler beside him, a gun in his lap. Behind Trimmer sat Tindol also with a gun and across the seat sat graying little James Denton-whose middle name was Ethel because his parents hoped for a girl- wondering what his wife and three children would do if the badmen decided to kill him when dark came. Traxler and Tindol, who had been living...
...plodding inexorably onward, eating every shred of living vegetation. There were dozens and scores of 'hoppers to the square foot, millions to the acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside in automobiles, killing hundreds of 'hoppers at every turn of a wheel. Against some houses and barns the insects were piled in drifts a yard deep. Newsreel cameramen put their lenses at ground level for close-ups which made the horde look like a fantastic invasion from another planet...