Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark eyes glistening with excitement, Egypt's young King Farouk sped last week to the Nile Delta. There, on the site of ancient Tanis, Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg had discovered the tomb of Psousennes I, second King of the 21st Dynasty (TIME, March 4). Last week, with Farouk watching, the professor opened Psousennes' silver mummy case...
Kirland was off to a good start as Al Mathis, Bill Rines, and Bill Jay sped to victory in the medley in 1:28.8, and Mike Brody and A1 Conger followed this up with a one-two finish in the 50. MalRowe and Teny Facio copped a second and third in the dive, and Bill Jay and Brody swept the century in 58 flat...
Last month Fred Mills sped west to find out if Hollywood could, and rumor soon had it that Warner Bros. were about to contract with him to make a series of shorts for the Mills nickelodeons. Subjects: popular songs, vaudeville skits...
...costs." A member of Baltimore's exclusive Bachelors' Cotillion, twice married, good-looking Socialite Lieut. Ridgely spent his first honeymoon pursuing bootleggers, was famed for his exploits. No mob-fearer was Sergeant Weber, who was badly battered trying to stop the 1933 lynching. They flew to Salisbury, sped into Worcester County...
...invited broadcast audience of 2,500) in black tie, was at the microphones for almost the full half-hour. At the finish, although he gave the best Lincoln the radio has heard, he took no curtain calls but darted out the stage door, piled into a police car, was sped five blocks to the Grand Opera House and the curtain-rising of Abe Lincoln in Illinois in nothing flat...