Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turn to preside. Nervously Persia's swart Prince Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan Foroughi assumed the chair. Perspiring, he constantly wiped his brow with a bright pink silk handkerchief. Then diffidently, as though conscious that the words of a Prince were as chaff to these commoners, he sped the Assembly's, proceedings with a dash of Orient philosophy thus...
...Williams, U. S. contestant, who had to withdraw because his racing plane would not leave the trial waters of the Severn River, Md. (TIME, Aug. 26). Around the diamond-shaped course the six planes raced. Monti and Cadringher were forced down. Atcherly, favorite, was disqualified for cutting a pylon. Sped the others - Waghorn at 328.63 m. p. h. for the course. That won. Italian dal Molin went 284.20 m. p. h.; Grieg, 282.11 m. p. h. The winning plane was a supermarine Rolls-Royce. Fast was Flyer Waghorn, but not fastest of the day. Atcherley was officially credited with...
After a 45-minute chat, Mr. MacDonald sped from M. Briand's office to the Gare de Lyons. Before his train chuffed out he talked to French correspondents with unwonted bonhommie. "I couldn't pass through Paris without seeing M. Briand, messieurs!" cried Pere MacDonald while Daughter Ishbel beamed. "Say simply that two old friends have met. The visit was purely personal. My old friend 'happens' -I place the emphasis on 'happens'-to be Prime Minister of France...
Thwarted, furious, the now frankly anti-Semite crowd rushed howling to demand that the Cathedral authorities refuse to harbor a Jewess. In the riot a traffic policeman was knocked down, trampled, bloodied. Finally with 300 police rescuers holding back the mob, sobbing, hysterical "Miss Universe" was sped in a limousine with blinds down, to a place of refuge undisclosed...
...minutes later the new Peruvian municipal government was installed in Tacna City, at exactly 4 p. m. The local Peruvian Superior Court was proclaimed to be functioning at 5 p. m. Trucks and vans piled high with Chilean furniture rumbled out all afternoon from Peruvian Tacna City, sped to the still Chilean seaport of Arica City, 39 miles distant and 1,800 feet below...