thank-you-ma'ms

Updated: June 23, 2025

This run of 303 miles over three mountain ranges, with the usual accompaniments of steep grades, rocks, ruts, and thank-you-ma'ms to rack the machinery and bruise the feelings of the riders, was made in 12 hours and 51 minutes. A little run of three or four hundred miles, though, is scarcely worth mentioning by way of showing what an auto can do in a real endurance contest.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21: The Recent Days (1910-1914)