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Word: headlights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...locomotive was a 50-watt radio transmitter, which got its power from the engine's headlight generator. A brass rail on the tender served as aerial. A mile back on the caboose was a wire antenna and inside a 50-watt transmitter energized by a generator which the caboose axles operated. Trainmen and engineer com- municated easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Train Radio | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with her lover, creeps into the bedroom where her son is asleep; and the moment when, a vague figure in veils, she vanishes as silently as a bird's wing in the brightness of a locomotive's headlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Foreign Trade | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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