Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That decided at 80 Broadway, a message sped around the corner to the National City Bank Building on Wall Street...
Jacob D. Hanson, Secretary of the Niagara Falls lodge of Elks, driving up the hill of Lewiston Heights, N. Y., decided not to halt. Those overalls, that coat, that gun, looked thuggish. As he sped by, several shots banged out behind him. Farther down the road, another man appeared and started shooting. Everything went black for Motorist Hanson. His car careened into the roadside bank...
Thus, the Chancellor defended his Budget with spirit, for some hours, careless or unconscious of his rising fever. Suddenly, however, he was seen to sway, and then to hurry from the House. A moment later he sped by motor up broad Whitehall to his nearby official residence at No. 11 Downing Street-next door to famed "No. 10," the residence of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Soon Mr. Churchill was tucked into bed. A doctor who could not presume to say I-told-you-so declared firmly that Chancellor Churchill had a seemingly not dangerous case of influenza but must...
...anything. He dared not, because upon the rooftops of Alba Julia were planted machine guns, and quietly massed at strategic points were well-paid troops apparently loyal to the Bratiano regime. In these circumstances, Dr. Maniu told his peasants to wait a bit in Alba Julia and himself sped to Bucharest where he presented their resolution to the Regency.* The regents refused to request Premier Vintila Bratiano's resignation, but agreed to permit the peasants a demonstration. So next day, preceded and followed by a detachment of Rumanian cavalrymen and shaded fitfully by esquadrilles of bombing planes...
George V, King & Emperor, cried last week, "I hit it!" His Majesty had just fired, during maneuvers of the Royal Tank Corps, a three pounder tank gun and the projectile had sped true to the bull's eye of the target. As everyone knows, George V rates as one of the half dozen best sporting shots in England...