Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miami, Fla., Feb. 28--National Guardsmen sped tonight toward lower Matecambe Key where 400 war veterans were is revolt against living conditions on a government relief project...
...lecturing. He was lecturing well, in fact he was lecturing brilliantly. Bent over the desks were hundreds of unfortunates absorbing learning willynilly, their flying fingers striving in vain to keep pace with the gush of dates and of treaties that flowed forth with immense speed. Through Marlberough's campaigns sped Mr. Perkins with flying jaw, through the contemporary Continental complications, through the peace settlements, through the founding of the Whigs and of the Tories, until at last the cornerstone on which the edifice hung was about to be placed...
...last week in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History an exultant message sped by telephone from the anthropology laboratories to the administrative offices...
From a refrigerated crypt in Pasadena, Calif., undertakers removed the frozen body of William Wrigley Jr., found it unchanged in appearance since they put it there three years ago. An ambulance sped it to the S. S. Catalina which bore it out to Santa Catalina Island. Near the town of Avalon an obelisk-topped mausoleum has been two years building. There William Wrigley Jr. was finally buried...
...24th Street at dusk, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau came to a steep, icy hill. At the top of the hill stood his young daughter Joan with a long bobsled. Mr. Morgenthau threw himself flat on the sled. Joan climbed on his back. Down the hill they sped, to stop in front of the Czechoslovakia!! Legation. Secretary Morgenthau & daughter trudged up the hill, zipped down again, coasted until dinner time...