Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern trailer is no longer an ugly wooden box. Anywhere from 14 to 30 feet long, it is a streamlined lozenge of light metal with curtained windows, chromium fittings, a simple swivel joint at the bow where it couples with the automobile. Inside, it is as compactly luxurious as the cabin of a small cruiser. A 14-footer may have three davenports which convert into beds, a stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum...
...knows who devised the automobile trailer, but everyone who participated in the mass movement of the American people onto the highways in the early 1920's remembers the occasional ones which careened past on the road. Lopsided, homemade wooden boxes looking like outhouses on wheels, they usually provoked snarls or sneers from motorists forced to cut out around them. As the automotive industry progressed, trailers remained virtually static. As late as 1932 they were rarities. Then, suddenly, public resistance broke down. All over the U. S. improved trailers rolled onto the highways. Last week as June and the national...
...said to myself, 'Something is going to be happening here.' I saw nothing more of any policemen until there was a shot fired and as soon as that shot was fired I dropped behind the wooden part of the counter. I was in a holdup one time in Detroit when a man was cut in half with a tommy-gun and at that time the police told me the only thing to do at a time like that is drop to the floor and stay there...
...kissing" cars back into the path of the field, merely serve to make it more spectacular. Last week's race indicated that the track had actually been improved. Although the pace was 3 m.p.h. faster than last year's, there was only one serious accident. Wooden-legged Al Miller was hurled out in front of the grandstands when his front axle broke. His wooden leg was shattered...
Open-mouthed crowds in Moscow's Supreme Court sat hour after hour last week on uncomfortable wooden benches while Soviet prosecutors and judges in ill-fitting business suits wove one of Red Russia's most exciting murder cases around the shifty-eyed figure of Konstantin Semenchuk, 49, for the past two years Governor of Wrangel Island. Murder is not a very serious crime in Russia, carrying a maximum penalty of only ten years imprisonment. Horrified as the testimony piled up against Semenchuk, prosecutors quickly changed the charge to "banditry," i.e., willful destruction of Soviet property, for which...