Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the visitors saw the turbine gathering speed, traveling at a rate of several thousand revolutions per min. they stopped their whispers, stared. Then Georges Claude turned on electric generators. Forty large bulbs began to glow dully, soon lighted up, shone brightly for min. Cuban scientists nodded their heads. Here was a Power which might some day give to Cuba and all tropical and semitropical countries an industrial value they never dreamed...
...motion picture business springs from an attack of cinematic sour grapes on the part of either Mr. Hart or Mr. Kaufman, who makes his first stage appearance in the part of a disappointed author. Actually, neither man has ever been to Hollywood. But each has spent 30 min. in a studio at Astoria...
...name, not her character, may have been borrowed from the Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) who went around the world in 72 days, 6 hr. II min., as a stunt for the New York World...
...years ago to go to Antarctica with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Fortnight ago he got his old job back. Last week he took off from Cleveland with 700 Ib. of mail, rode a tail wind over the Alleghenies and into Newark Airport (412 mi.) in 2 hr. 51 min.-a new record...
...Point Judith. Both crossed the line closehauled on the starboard tack with Shamrock about 200 yd. to windward. A minute after crossing the line Heard took the port tack and Vanderbilt followed him. Enterprise was footing faster, pointing higher as they headed toward Narragansett. Shamrock was far behind (9 min. 17 sec.) and the race practically over at the end of the first leg. On the two remaining legs Shamrock gained but only because Skipper Vanderbilt was taking no chances with his yacht's gear. He was near home on the third leg before he set his spinaker...