Word: spedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quitting Geneva amid a few Japanese shouts of Banzai! ("May You Live 10,000 Years!") Japanese Chief Delegate Matsuoka sped by train to Paris, arrived there unable to make up his mind last week whether he ought to cross the Atlantic and "explain everything" to President Roosevelt or sail from Marseilles for Japan via the Suez Canal...
Having broken a winch while sounding the Caribbean and adjacent Atlantic, Eldridge Reeves Johnson's yacht Caroline put into San Juan, P. R. last week. Immediately Dr. Paul Bartsch, Smithsonian naturalist, sped ashore to report the discovery of the greatest known crack in earth, a deep of 44,000 ft. (8.33 mi.) just north of Puerto Rico. Also off Puerto Rico is the Nares Deep (27,972 ft., or 5.30 mi.), greatest previously known hole in the Atlantic.* Both deeps lie in a lively seismic zone, indicate how the earth's crust warps and cracks...
Singing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House leaves many a tenor with a swollen head but Tenor Tito Schipa who lately finished his first season there was left with swollen tonsils. He sped to Los Angeles where last week Surgeon Edward Russell Kellogg proceeded to remove them, to adjust, as he said. Tenor Schipa's "epiglottal space." Six weeks will pass before the operation's results will be known but then Dr. Kellogg hopes that Schipa will find the range of his voice higher by two or four notes...
Home in London, ailing Scot MacDonald went to work on a new note. Again diplomacy sped on greased skids. Ambassador Lindsay at Washington received the new note late at night, called Secretary Stimson for a midnight conference just as he was about to get into bed. The new note was simply a tactful revision of the old. In effect it said: "The U. S. is entitled to regard this Dec. 15 payment in any light it pleases; but we reserve the right to hope that the settlement question will be re-opened and that this payment may then be credited...
Bolting the rest of his breakfast Secretary Stimson sped to the White House whither President Hoover hastily summoned his other bower, Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Out came the British note and for two hours the three hunched over the President's desk pondering what Britain's whole Cabinet had painstakingly written at Downing Street earlier in the week...