Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earth near Nuneaton. Deftly he skimmed beneath a high tension line carrying 6,000 volts. Then he discovered that he had no wrench with which to repair his motor. Vexed, he walked three miles until he found an autoist who loaned him a suitable wrench. His plane repaired, he sped to Manchester and civic glory. Meanwhile a Manchester crowd, informed by telephone of the contretemps, burst into incredulous laughter, refused for some minutes to believe that the great hero-airman of Britain could have come to grief...
Significance. Newsgatherers wrote glibly for a day about "The Entente of Leghorn." They hinted profoundly at a dark deal between Sir Austen and Il Duce to "counterbalance" the Franco-German "Entente of Thoiry" (see p. 14). Then Sir Austen climbed into a wagonlit, sped to Paris, conferred with Foreign Minister Briand, returned to London. By common consent the correspondents decided that all bets in favor of an "Entente of Leghorn" were...
Amid general pomp, masculine gold braid, feminine fine raiment, the new Governor General took the oath of office in the Legislative Council of Quebec. Later he lunched at the Chateau Frontenac, famed hotel. Still later, a special train sped the Governor General and his entourage to Ottawa...
...Lamont Report," as it was promptly christened, sped over humming rails from Mexico City to Manhattan last week. Conclusion: 1) That Mexican commerce has returned to normal in every Mexican state but one. 2) That in the city of Guadalajara, famed Roman Catholic stronghold, commerce has regained a level of about 60% of normal...
...route to Cuernavaca. So steep is the hill that Mr. Quick could not stop when commanded to halt by the bandits. Two shots ripped through his side curtains. Then, resourceful, Mr. Quick took his foot from the brake, plunged it down upon the gas. His car, bounding, lurching, sped down the hill. Half a mile farther on he met First-Secretary Arthur Bliss Lane of the U. S. Embassy, motoring toward Mexico City with his wife and daughter. Warned by Mr. Quick the Lanes turned round, sped back to Cuernavaca...