Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House for the fourth time since 1922 considered a Federal anti-lynching bill. When a similar bill was last up in the House, Mississippi lynchers did their timely bit by blow-torching, shooting and roasting two Negroes to death at Duck Hill (TIME, April 26, 1937). The consequent horror sped the bill through the House but did not weaken Southern Senators, who filibustered the measure to sleep, as they had done its predecessors. Last week Congressman William Meyers Colmer of Pascagoula, Miss, addressed himself to the 1940 bill's chief sponsor-white, Tammany-Irish Joe Gavagan, from Manhattan...
...Ulen reached into his bag of tricks and pulled forth Eric Cutler as a 100 breaststroke. The Crimson captain sped through the century in 54 flat to beat favorite Bob Schaper of Brown by a touch. Cutler had already annexed his regular 220 in 3:18, just ahead of Frannie Powers, and would have been ready to take on all comers in the 440 had the score demanded...