Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week toward Brown's Bank, off the Nova Scotia coast. To Seaman Fred Bourque, on the bow watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead ahead, a great silhouette showed. Fred Bourque shouted a warning to Billy Oilman at the wheel, ran aft. In less time than it takes to gut a cod the Isabelle Parker had piled halfway through the Gloucesterman Edith C. Rose, southbound with her hold stuffed with catch from Brown's Bank. The watch below came tumbling up in undershirts. They saw that it was over...
Krivitsky-Ginsberg, the New Masses went on to say last week, was not a Russian, but an Austrian, whose fiercest battles were "waged about a roulette wheel in Paris." Furthermore, said the New Masses, General Krivitsky had not even written the Satevepost articles, but had had them ghosted for him by Isaac Don Levine, anti-Stalinist biographer of Stalin and some-time writer for the Hearst press...
...Powel Crosley Jr. towered above a tiny automobile at the Indianapolis motor speedway one day last week while his grandson broke a bottle of gasoline on its nose and 200 Crosley Corp. dealers applauded the christening. Then Mr. Crosley tucked his six-foot-four frame comfortably behind the steering wheel and posed for photographers...
This week the Original Amateur Hour entered its fifth year with no sign of nagging. The Major was still there in rare, sonorous voice ("A'spinning goes our weekly wheel of fortune . . . around, around she goes, and where she stops, nobody knows. . . .") and the supply of amateurs showed no sign of diminishing. Still among the top ten programs on the air, it has an unwavering weekly audience...
Unlike Postman Smith's contraption, the commercial scooter is a two-or three-wheeled affair. It can go up to 35 miles an hour, runs 120 miles on a gallon of gas. Underslung between small, pneumatic-tired wheels, it has handlebars like a motorcycle, a footboard on which the driver puts his feet, an enclosed engine housing over the rear wheel on which he sits. Unlike either bicycle or motorcycle, it can be ridden sitting straight up, with a minimum loss of dignity. The rider straddles no crossbar, has no engine between his knees to oil his slacks...