Word: sped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco taxi, lean, sepulchral Samuel Morgan Shortridge, 73, onetime (1921-33) U. S. Senator from California, paled and slumped in his seat. The taximan sped his unconscious fare to a hospital. There physicians examined him, shook their heads. They had just issued a bulletin stating that he had collapsed from a heart attack and had not long to live when the ex-Senator's doctor rushed in, re-examined him. Cried the doctor: "He's hungry. He just had his teeth pulled and he's not been able to chew his food." Fed, Mr. Shortridge quickly recovered...
...drawbridges raised, a swarm of officers and two U. S. Army pursuit planes put on the trail. After a few miles the convicts tossed out Secretary Noon to warn pursuing police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
...leave the crater. Just then a mild-mannered young man in a Japanese kimono inched imperceptibly toward the edge. Several Japanese ladies screamed as he stripped off his kimono, revealing a handsome torso stark naked. "Police!" cried the ladies. "Stop him!" But clean as an arrow the yellow body sped, disappeared into the curling yellow fumes, spattered upon Death Ledge 600 ft. below...
...former Lady Hewart dropped dead 14 months ago at a reception given by London's Lord Mayor (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). With his new lady, the Lord Chief Justice sped to Brighton, announced that he will complete his second honeymoon on the French Riviera...
Delayed two hours at Dundas by the wreck of the Maple Leaf, the International Limited finally got underway, sped toward Chicago to make up lost time. Scooting through Harvey, a Chicago suburb, hours later the International suddenly piled into an automobile at a crossing, scattered the bodies of three men and four women along the right...