motor-timing

Updated: May 23, 2025

But he would have gone with Carl aeroplaning to the South Pole upon five minutes' notice four minutes to devote to the motor, and one minute to write, with purple indelible pencil, a post-card to his aunt in Fall River. He was precise about only two things motor-timing and calling himself a "mechanician," not a "mechanic."

Sinclair Lewis - The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life