Word: sped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...André Citroën was heavy on the Paris Bourse one day last week. In a fortnight the stock had tobogganed from 500 francs per share to 260. Andre Citroen, the bald, dapper little "Ford of France," was in swift financial waters. From one excited broker to another sped reports of a general creditors' meeting at the Bank of France. Finally the Agence Economique et Financiére, the Dow, Jones & Co. of Paris, rumbled authoritatively...
...tumultuous session marked by vigorous expressions of opinion from the crowd, by the forcible expulsion of one would-be onlooker, and by bitterness on all sides, the Gill hearing sped through the remaining fifteen of Commissioner Dillon's 36 charges against the Norfolk head's administration, and was brought to a close shortly after 2 P. M. yesterday. Ten days have been granted the defendant for completing the reords, before any decision is reached...
...have sought and entreated criticism of our methods and results. . . . The greater part has sped dying and fallen dead. Of late, professional criticism has degenerated into scurrilous and personal appraisements of, and assaults on, officials. A conspicuous recent instance is by a writer who dared not sign his name. . . . With a little less than libel, a trifle more than backstairs gossip, this writer in whose veins there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. . . . All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased...
...Harvard again in 1919 he sped up the academic ladder-associate professor of chemistry in 1925, full professor in 1927, head of his department in 1931. Students found him harddriving, businesslike, admired his vast authority. Meantime he was deep in the chemical researches which in time made European scientists first ask visiting Harvardmen: "What's Conant doing...
...large car with a negro chauffeur sped a man and woman from California into Arizona. When it failed to stop at the border inspection station near Toprock, an irate motorcycle policeman chased it a mile down the road, waved it to the side of the road. He looked at the two passengers. A sheepish grin came over his face. He waved them on. At Holbrook, Ariz., stopping for the night, they registered as Robert Brown and Mary Jones, took rooms 12 & 17. Next morning as they paid their bill, Hotel Proprietor Joe Gerwitz looked at the woman in dark glasses...