Meaning of Model T | Babel Free

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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.

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Examples

“a Model⟳ T moment”

“the Model⟳ T of [device category X]”

“This institution is no Model⟳ T.”

“In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model⟳ T into an imitation totem pole.”

“Jerked my thumb at a Model⟳ T, So-and-so wouldn't stop⟳ for me.”

“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.”

“... 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.”

“"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."”

“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?"”

“All of a sudden, as Martin covered the countryside in his Model⟳ T, he began to notice⟳ strange sights...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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