Model T

English Noun ? Model T The first car made by the Ford Motor Company on an assembly line. Before the Model T, cars were mostly made painstakingly by hand. The Model T helped popularize automobiling for the masses; it is widely considered the model that most did so. en T<id:Model T> tin Lizzie en a Model T moment en the Model T of [device category X] en 1920 Forrest Edwin Long; Philip Westcot Lawrence Cox The Clearing House 558 This institution is no Model T. en 1923 Henry Robinson Luce; Briton Hadden Time In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. en 1924 Southern Methodist University Southwest Review 356 Jerked my thumb at a Model T, So-and-so wouldn't stop for me. en 1928 Colonial Society of Massachusetts Northeastern University The New England Quarterly 543 I can find no internal evidence that the journey was not made in the back seat of a Model T with the curtains drawn—except that the style is painfully pedestrian. en 1929 William Theodore Evjue The Progressive ... whenever they learned that a lynching was brewing they went by buggy, train, or Model T straight to the sheriff of the county and stayed with him until he did something about it. en 1931 Whit Burnett; Martha Foley Story Magazine "Is a guy sore if the Model T he got for twenty bucks don't run after he's run it five year? Forget it Johnny, profit and loss." en 1934 Thomas Hornsby Ferril Westering 89 You can get about as much from a Model-T/Stripped and forgotten in a sage arroyo/As you can from asking the blue peaks over and over: "Will something old come back again tonight?" en 1955 Lila Bell Acheson Wallace; De Witt Wallace The Reader's Digest 40 All of a sudden, as Martin covered the countryside in his Model T, he began to notice strange sights... en 1965 David Mark Chalmers Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965 225 Carts was on his way to the governor's mansion, touring the rural back country in his Model T, sounding the warning against the encroachments of Satan. en 1999 James Stuart Olson Historical Dictionary of the 1960s 59 When Senator Oscar Underwood announced his intention to retire in 1926, Black decided to run for Senate. He simply took off on his own, covering the back country alone in his Model-T, speaking anywhere he could find listeners and staying with anyone who would put up with him. en 2005 Steve Striffler Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food 40 Charles Odell Lovette, the patriarch of the family that was to build North Carolina-based Holly Farms into one of the largest poultry companies in the world, began in the mid-1920s by gathering country produce in his Model T and hauling it to city markets. Translations first car made by Ford Motor Co. on an assembly line Dutch: nl T-Ford Hungarian: hu T Modell Marathi: mr मॉडेल टी f Anagrams en delmot molted en Automobiles