Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress helpfully sped the bill to passage. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court also proved itself helpful by once again defining the constitutional limits of Federal power and by deciding (6-to-3) that the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act was outside those limits...
...46th running of the PreaknessStakes. Jockey Georgie Wolff held Bold Venture far back in the pack for more than half the distance, let Granville, who ran riderless in the Derby after dumping his jockey, set the pace. Their heads and legs were as one as they sped across the line. A camera-eye picture of the finish determined the victory which made Bold Venture the fifth horse ever to win both the Derby and the Preakness...
...trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...
...September 1937, sirens screamed and gongs clanged from nine ungainly buildings in Florida's Lake Okeechobee and Keys regions. The radio clicked out storm warnings. Citizens flung together their belongings, sped to the nearest of the nine houses. Behind reinforced concrete walls, they waited until the hurricane had blown itself out. Then, safe & sound, they went back to what was left of their homes...
When the liner docked, the couple tripped smiling down the gangplank, amid yells of "Here comes the bride!" They refused all comment on the nuptials. Then Cinemactor Chaplin chartered the yacht Sea Belle II from Sir Thomas Shenton Thomas, Governor of the Straits Settlements, for an East Indies cruise, sped off for a few days in Java...