Word: motorcar
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...dungheap and motorcar morality of the present novel is the symbol of man's wonder and disgust at his failure. The storm of realism which has swept away the simple sentimentality of pre-war America is not the dying gasp of a degenerate literature: it is the attempt of man to know himself. He has been trying ever since Socrates, but only in periods of disillusioned self-scrutiny has he attained any measure of success. By understanding his strengths, his weaknesses, his abilities and his stupidities he may be able to cure those desperate ills which humanity refastens upon itself...
...stronger position. The great success this year of the Chrysler car has done just this for Maxwell. On the other hand, the strong companies must each year bring out very appealing new models or lose their position in the industry, as Studebaker has discovered. The competition in the motorcar business is concerned not only with prices, but also with styles and fashions...
...Boston, Motor Registrar Frank A. Goodwin decreed pictures of red, clad bathing-girls† pasted on motorcar windshields and windows, "a menace," banned them...
...large motorcar snorted into the village of Albano, near Rome. Over the hood fluttered a small red flag, bearing the emblem of the Soviet...
...pioneer stage of the motorcar business is past. Now the changes in models are not so much genuine mechanical improvements as "selling points." This Spring the balloon tire and the four-wheel brake were novelties; now they are practically standard equipment. With the present new crop of "latest models," the chief feature consists in selling eight-cylinder cars in the moderate price field, and selling sixes at or under the existing prices for fours. The last Buick is such a six-cylinder model. What tomorrow's "new feature" will be, no one knows, least of all the manufacturers themselves...