Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between Belisha beacons. While doing so one night the Italian Lancia met a British Frazer-Nash head on and killed Douglas George Hopkins, the sporting secretary of the Frazer-Nash Car Club, who was driving with his sister Sheila and her friend Rosemary Reynolds. A constable verified from the wheel tracks the impression of all concerned that Lord de Clifford was not driving on his side of the road and a coroner's jury demanded his indictment for manslaughter, which in Great Britain, as in the U. S., is a felony...
...both had splitting headaches. The new car was sold, the Crane Simplex put back in use. Last week Owner Satterlee, Builder Crane and Buttner, the Satterlee chauffeur, planned to hold a celebration when the car achieves 299,999 miles, to cover the 300,000th with Mr. Crane at the wheel...
Spray pumps also developed into pumps for washing food. From food-washers came automobile washers, and from automobile washers a line of motorcar equipment including brake-testers and wheel-aligners. Thus many a Food Machinery product sprang from the spray pump, which Food Machinery still sells...
...Stadium only some 50,000 were filled but crowds were gathered outside at loudspeakers, the better to hear if not to see. There the President opened the campaign of 1936. After that one excursion the President returned to Warm Springs, the game of polio, his daily outings at the wheel of his car, the comings & goings of official visitors. There in his fine pine paneled living room he heard his radio tell the ghastly tale of how Army scored four touchdowns against Navy in 18 minutes. Thence he went forth to visit the Pine Valley Resettlement Project near his farm...
...that." Jarless. The third member of the U. S. delegation, being a professional diplomat, said not a word as he boarded the Aquitania. He was the least important member of the delegation, because Mr. Davis was its diplomatic head, Admiral Standley its naval head and he merely a third wheel. His appointment to the delegation is officially to last for only "a few weeks"-i. e., until the troublesome top men of other nations can be persuaded to go home and leave the Conference in peace. But Undersecretary of State William Phillips was also the most significant member...