Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn back the subtle inroads of this form of philistinism only the sped of suggestion which awakens broader interests in needed. The plan of throwing students together in Houses is being tried, but it would seem that the difficulty might be attacked much nearer its root in the system of courses. If, for example, Professor Whitehead gave a lecture to the Freshmen who take Mathematics A, explaining the significance of mathematics in Philosophy, the mental horizon of all the intelligent students in the course would be appreciably widened. The same scheme, modified for various fields, would work successfully in almost...
...Herty had a speaking appointment at Niagara Falls before a section of the American Chemical Society. There he sped to exclaim: "Perhaps the most sensational fact about this new product is its strength and light weight. It has a burst strength of 10 to 12 lb. per sq. in., compared with only 6 to 10 lb. for the standard newsprint. It is a 30-lb. paper, while the standard is 32. This means that newspapers, if able to buy it, would receive 6.66% more sheets per ton and their mailing costs by weight would be 6.66% less...
With sirens shrieking, a swarm of motorcycles shot down Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and turned west on 57th Street. After them sped a black limousine with secret service men standing like supernumerary footmen on its running boards. A truck full of trunks followed. It was Thursday, March 2, and Citizen Franklin Delano Roosevelt was moving to the White House...
...midnight they poured out of the Federal Reserve Bank and 16 of the biggest of them mounted into five waiting limousines, sped northward up silent lower Broadway past the slumbering warehouses of Lafayette Street, up Park Avenue, among the taxis of night-club-goers to the home of Governor Lehman who was patiently staying home for them, having given up his trip to the inauguration...
...gates!" he ordered. "Close the Kupei Pass!" Frantically Chinese troops of the Peiping garrison rushed to obey orders and thus shut Jehol's luckless Chinese defenders out of China. Commandeering motor cars, trucks, carts and 10,000 Peiping rickshaws & coolies, the Young Marshal's troops sped 50 mi. to the Wall. No fool, War Lord Tang did not himself try to slip in from Jehol, but 242 motor trucks loaded with his "treasures" reached the Wall. Promptly the treasures vanished...