Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Play grew faster in the third period when Wood scored for Harvard. C. C. Cunningham '32 carried the puck from behind his own net to within a few feet of the opposing team's, but a fast play by Manning caused Cunningham to go in the net instead of the puck. Gilmor, Frothingham Score for Seconds...
Practical. U. S. citizens favor youth, speed. As against the Caronia, the President Roosevelt is younger (15 years), and faster (four hours...
...Brazilians were clamoring for some gesture from Alberto Santos-Dumont. They wanted the United States of Brazil to thumb its collective nose at the United States of America. Senhor Santos-Dumont satisfied them-by describing an invention, his "Martian transformer," a device with which one can walk faster and with less effort. It is to be fastened to a walker's back; his strides activate it; it in turn "energizes his nervous system." He may climb mountains with as little effort as walking a sidewalk. A larger machine should enable one to walk "in birdlike flight." U. S. neurologists...
...bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only a seaplane could have sped faster, yet the distance of 6,000 miles seemed illimitable, mocking. Perhaps the young man remembered Kipling's words...
Gene Shank, who once held the record for looping-the-loop in an airplane, flew after a flock of blue teal in an airplane. He went 80 miles an hour; the ducks went much faster...