Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of a police raid on overnight parkers in the vicinity of the Houses, the dawn broke yesterday morning with red tickets fluttering from 25 or 30 windshield wipers along Dunster, Holyoke, Plimpton, and Mill Streets. Not only is the usual "number has been taken" clause there, but stamped on the bottom, it asks the bearer to present the tag at Traffic Division within 24 hours--before 5.30 o'clock...
...state they paste a poster on your windshield which claims that the license plates identify the behavior of the driver. Similarly, it should be help in mind that where your feet trod is a reflection of your conduct. In college or in life one cannot afford to be thoughtless in any sense of the word. In New York's Washington Square--where the Fifth Avenue busses route and non-descripts fill the benches, there is a sign on the grass with an imaginative, although true message. It runs something like this...
Great majority of injuries, both minor and serious, received by people in automobile crashes are due to their being thrown forward against dashboard, windshield, steering wheel or seat by their own inertia when their car suddenly slams to a stop. Last week Major Alford Joseph ("Al") Williams, speed flyer of note and writer of ability (TIME, Jan. 11), proposed a simple remedy in his daily column in the Pittsburgh Press. Excerpt...
...rate of about 35 m.p.h. ... I saw what was coming and braced myself. My companion in the back seat had not been watching, and he bounced forward and banged his nose on the back of the front seat. The passenger alongside the driver bumped his forehead on the windshield. Then blood and all the usual details. An ordinary aviation safety belt could have prevented every single human injury in that case...
...overpass. With a reverberation heard for a mile, the gas tanks exploded, spread flames which were soon shooting 40 ft. high. The wreckage rolled over, lay on its side across the road. The engine, torn completely off, fell 200 ft. away. The driver and another man shot through the windshield, badly hurt, clothes ablaze. Three others managed to crawl through the windows. But 18 screaming, fighting men and women burned to death inside...