Glossary
Barnstormer: To travel around the countryside making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting theatrical performances.
Aviation: The operation of aircraft. The design, development, and production of aircraft.
Automobile: A passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal combustion engine.
Quadricycle: A vehicle similar to the bicycle and tricycle but having four wheels.
Assembly Line: An arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation.
Consumer: A person or organization that uses a commodity or service.
Installment plan: A system for paying for an item in fixed amounts at specified intervals.
Credit: confidence in a purchaser's ability and intention to pay, displayed by entrusting the buyer with goods or services without immediate payment.
Flapper: (in the 1920's) A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
Free-Spirit: An independent or uninhibited person.
Contraceptive Devices: An agent or device intended to prevent conception.
Planned Parenthood Federation: An organization that provides reproductive health care services.
Unrequited: (of a feeling, especially love) not returned or rewarded.
Stoic: A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.
Aviation: The operation of aircraft. The design, development, and production of aircraft.
Automobile: A passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal combustion engine.
Quadricycle: A vehicle similar to the bicycle and tricycle but having four wheels.
Assembly Line: An arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation.
Consumer: A person or organization that uses a commodity or service.
Installment plan: A system for paying for an item in fixed amounts at specified intervals.
Credit: confidence in a purchaser's ability and intention to pay, displayed by entrusting the buyer with goods or services without immediate payment.
Flapper: (in the 1920's) A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
Free-Spirit: An independent or uninhibited person.
Contraceptive Devices: An agent or device intended to prevent conception.
Planned Parenthood Federation: An organization that provides reproductive health care services.
Unrequited: (of a feeling, especially love) not returned or rewarded.
Stoic: A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.