Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plut! The ball sped through the air from a good drive. The little man was within an ace of the championship, but a bad slip might prove disastrous. The water-hole was yet between his ball and the hole, and the wind continued to blow...
...could hardly refuse an opportunity for such service. President Coolidge had since March 10, an empty seat in his Cabinet. He offered it to William S. Kenyon of Iowa. Judge of the Eighth U. S. District Court. Judge Kenyon said, "Thank you, no." The same day a telegram sped across the country to San Francisco. Curtis D. Wilbur, California's Chief Justice, said "Thank...
...Shipstead (his successor), Senator Magnus Johnson -both Farmer-Laborites - Senators Wheeler, Dill, Ferris and Copeland- Democrats - and Senators Frazier, Brookhart and Norris-Republicans- voted against the appointment for the reason that Mr. Kellogg had been taken out of politics by the ballot. Seventy-five other Senators, with favorable votes, sped their former colleague from politics to diplomacy...
...said good-bye to the Burgomaster, then passed on into the Fatherland. Arriving in Hanover, the ex-Crown Prince visited Germany's famed Generalfeldmarschall, von Hindenburg. His visit lasted only half an hour, after which Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, choosing the sideways and byways in order to escape detection, sped on toward his destination, which was reputed to be his beautiful 20,000-acre estate at Oels near Breslau in Silesia, where he was eagerly awaited by leading citizens dressed in Prince Albert coats and high hat, not to mention a host of foreign press correspondents and motion picture...
...from their conference at West Baden, the Governors entrained, sped to Washington. There they were joined by several others who had not been at the Conference of Governors. Notable among these additions to the Governors' party were Messrs. Ritchie of Maryland and Smith of New York, ardent Wets...