magneto

• "No batteries--magneto, huh Yes, but it don't magnete. —  Tom Slade on a Transport
• It will give you strength, courage and help to keep you in a good mood all day I cannot too strongly emphasize the importance of walking alone, for then you have shifted your nerve energy from the dry cell battery of the brain to the magneto, which is the spinal cord. —  Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep
• "I think he's probably disconnected the wires of the magneto--that's what I'd do if I wanted to put a motor out of business in a hurry. —  Facing the German foe, by Colonel James Fiske
• The aptitude for happiness will have gone by for the transitory joys of driving, the questionable intricacies of the magneto--" but further details were suspended owing to small bales of cotton waste hurtling through the air, and in self defence I had to leave the "intricacies of the magneto" and pursue the offenders round the camp! —  Fanny Goes to War
• Terrestrial magneto-electric induction 140 6. —  Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1

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