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...Harvard, subfreezing temperatures and waist-deep drifts cut early-morning lecture and section attendance to half of the normal. Students who did brave the 40 mph gusts often had to wait up to half an hour for section men coming on public transportation vehicles...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Heavy Snowfall Blankets Boston Area; Traffic Snarled, Class Attendance Cut | 12/13/1960 | See Source »

...Maine Turnpike was completely impassible, and traffic was moving at only 30 mph on the Mass. Pike. Describing the situation in Maine, an official sending out rescue vehicles said. "We don't care about the cars, we just want to get the people out of them and get them where it's warm...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Heavy Snowfall Blankets Boston Area; Traffic Snarled, Class Attendance Cut | 12/13/1960 | See Source »

Bill of Particulars. In Tucson. Ariz., police traveling 65 to 100 mph were outdistanced but finally caught Speedster Delos Kebler Knox Jr., by trapping him in a roadblock, promptly impounded his ex-1948 Ford on the ground that it had 1) no body, 2) no windshield, 3) no floor boards, 4) steering wheel sawed in half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 22, 1957 | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...second freshman boat and two shells from Andover Academy sank ignobly to the bottom of the choppy Charles yesterday as a result of 40 mph gusts which sprang up after the finish of their race. Only the winning number one boat managed to stay afloat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Shells sink in River | 5/10/1956 | See Source »

Moments later, the dockers flashed the news: on his outbound run he averaged 215.08 m.p.h. over the measured kilometer; homebound, he did 189.57 m.p.h. -for an official average of 202.32 mph Said Campbell quietly: "Bluebird was not all out by a very long way. She ought to be able to go quite a bit faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jet on the Water | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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