Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sparkle in some darling eye or sprinkle gold on some wisp of hair. And he had felt deliciously sad about himself and these tall willowy dancing girls who would soon be frowsy and decrepit. These fine lads going out late into the world to be broken slowly on the wheel of fortune. Thank God he had another year. He felt so sad for the whole world he could have cried. And suddenly he didn't care and wandered away inconsolable into the dark night. He haunted all the buildings where he had lived, and went into the Yard and touched...
...propeller. Alert Gliderman Levin connected the dual controls in the front cockpit, grasped the joystick, kicked the rudder pedals, leveled and landed the airplane. Safe on the ground he looked again to Pilot Hawes, found him unconscious. Unlike Dancer Isadora Duncan, who died when her scarf caught in a wheel of her automobile, Pilot Hawes came...
...Union Pacific train will consist of three cars hinged together and seating 116 passengers. Four-wheel trucks will carry the entire train-one under the fore end, one under the rear end and one under each car joint. The whole will be thoroughly streamlined with windows flush and operating gadgets pocketed. Motive power will be electricity generated in the forward car by a gasoline (or butane) motor, otherwise by an oil-driven Diesel. Exulted Chairman Harriman last week: "The train is fully streamlined to a greater extent than has been attempted to date either in this or any foreign country...
Other experiments with streamlined rail transportation deal with single, separately motored cars. Michigan Central has a gasoline-driven car which is virtually a flanged-wheel motor bus. It does 70 to 90 m.p.h. Philadelphia & Western is using 50 m.p.h. streamlined interurban coaches driven electrically from third rails. France has several gasoline-motored streamlined buses on rails. One, a Bugatti. can do 110 m.p.h., may go on a regular Paris-Deauville run this summer...
...Glens Falls, N. Y., Harry Caswell, handcuffed to the wheel of an automobile in a 100-hour driving endurance test, drove into a barn to avoid a rainstorm. The backfire of his motor set ten tons of hay ablaze. As the flames licked at his clothes, he picked the lock of his manacles with a hairpin, escaped...