Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street, the three Chicago youths entered their car. "Texas," following drunkenly, got into the wrong automobile by mistake. Two policemen dashed up. Dazed, he began to fire. One of them shot him through the heart. Three half-drunken robbers in a light green car sped east along Lake Shore Drive, turned south with the shoreline, then west to Michigan Avenue, then north again past the hotel with a burst of speed, having completely circled the scene of their crime. Lincoln Park policemen on the running boards of commandeered automobiles followed, volleying. Up the "Gold Coast," with pretentious residences...
Nevertheless, the submarines went out to reconnoitre while the mine sweepers swept the channel and the destroyers sped through, followed by the cruisers. The battleships up-anchored and the whole fleet assembled in the open sea. Airplanes from shore performed a few stunts overhead and the fleet was away...
...arrow sped away-but not very fast. These are economical times. Congress does not like to appropriate for the Navy-so cruising is done at an economical speed, 11 knots...
Such was the story that crept, last week, out of the jungle to Nairobi, British East Africa; sped thence to Paris, London, the world...
...evening was cool, and in the morning the train was in Chicago. Engines were changed in the railroad yards, and the train sped on over the Chicago & Northwestern tracks to St. Paul. The route led through Wisconsin and Senator Lenroot, foe of LaFollette, sat in the observation car with the President, where his constituents might see them. It was a hot, sticky day. Towards evening, the train pulled into St. Paul. In all the 30 hours, the President made not a single rear-platform speech. But he ate three steaks...