Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. expects to bring out a new line of "Aero" passenger cars that will be "very unlike the jeep" or the jeepster. Willys said last week that its three Aero models will be streamlined, with "long, flowing lines and low silhouettes," will have small wheel bases (108 in.) and six-cylinder, go-h.p., high-compression engines which are expected to run up to 35 miles on a gallon of gas. OPS wholesale prices: $1,310, $1,415 and $1.468. If Willys tacks on the standard dealers' markup, Aero retail price will start at about...
...home from the playground when she was hit by an automobile coming down Strasburg Avenue. For a few moments, the little girl clung desperately to the car, rapping on the fender. The driver heartlessly drove on. Then the little girl lost her grip and was crushed beneath a rear wheel...
Most of the models work, and all look much too modern to have been invented 450 years ago. One of Leonardo's water turbines is almost up to date. So is his odometer, a device to measure distances by counting the turns of a wheel. His mechanical jack looks as if it had been designed for changing tires on a modern automobile. If Leonardo had had a gasoline engine, his tank (with breech-loading cannon and independent spiked wheels) might have been effective during World...
Some of Leonardo's inventions were actually built and used. His canal locks are still in operation near Milan, and they work just like the locks of the Panama Canal. But Leonardo was often too far ahead of his contemporaries. His paddle-wheel boat, his cantilever swing bridge, his pumps and his air conditioner (both driven by water power) did not fit the crude technology of the 16th Century. Centuries had to pass before the slow-moving world caught up with Leonardo...
...little girl took a picture book, sat down under the table with her back to Tom, and slowly, carefully, examined each page. "It's got a crooked wheel," Tom said, "that's what it is." The little girl made no answer. She was staring at the book with round eyes and a small pursed mouth-the expression of a nervous child at the zoo when the lions are just going to roar. Slowly and carefully she turned the next page. As it opened, her eyes became larger, her mouth more tightly pursed, as if she expected some creature...