Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shove. They wobbled around about once a minute. He speeded up his motor and the propeller slipstream made the vanes rotate rapidly, about 130 r.p.m., according to their speedometer. The vanes vibrated. To smooth that out he idled his motor for five seconds. Then he released his brakes, sped up the motor again, taxied to his takeoff. The vanes were turning smoothly at 120 r. p. m. and creating a practically solid disc-shaped plane surface reflecting air downward. His take-off was slow...
Obediently, Elizabeth sped to Bled. In the presence of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, her sister Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, Prime Minister Zhivkovitch of Jugoslavia and members of the Royal Family, she took a lighted candle in one hand, the royal babe in the other, and walked around the sacramental table in the castle chapel while Patriarch Dimitrea of the Jugoslav Orthodox Church named the little prince Andreja (Andrew...
...gold bullion are necessarily slow. All summer airplanes have been hopping off gold-laden from England. Many winged to Germany, attracted by legitimate opportunities for high return offered in the Reich, where the discount rate of the Reichsbank stood at 7½%, a potent magnet. But even more gold planes sped to France, and that was passing strange. With the Bank of France's rate at 3½%, the zeal of that institution to acquire and hold gold bullion was regarded in London as distinctly ominous. Was the explanation that France ?on the eve of The Hague Reparations Conference?was amassing...
Toward evening Babe, Donna & Duce motored inland to spend the birthday night at their rustic farm, the Villa Carpena. Lights were doused early. Next day the dutiful Duce bade his spouse a crisp farewell, sped back to his chosen busy bachelorhood in Rome. There, after buying a red carnation?just now his favorite boutonniére?the Dictator settled down to work, found an appalling piece of work...
Seven hundred sea miles in 24 hours-for 22 years the Mauretania has been shooting at that goal. Her best shot was a 676, made in 1911 on a record crossing from Cherbourg to Manhattan. Last week the Bremen, on her first day out from Cherbourg sped 687 miles for a new world's one-day record. As she nosed into Manhattan plump Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein snapped his stopwatch and beamingly announced that the Bremen's time from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light had been 4 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes. The Maure-tania's best record...