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Word: runabout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Simmons' My Sin, winner last year with an average speed of 66 m.p.h., and Herbert Mendelson's brand-new Notre Dame, successor to the original Notre Dame that won the 1937 race. Sentimentalists hoped that Gar Wood Jr., driving his little Tinker Toy (a converted 18-ft. runabout with which he was making his debut in big-time inboard racing), might follow in the wake of his famed father, four-time Gold Cup winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hotsy Totsy | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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