Word: spedding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Soon a letter sped from Doom to Major Judson Hannigan, whence it Cached newsgatherers last week: "Esteemed Major: I refuse to submit to the Emperor your communication of the 21st of March of this year, addressed to his Majesty, Emperor William II (not as you; in your remarkable ignorance of contemporary history, write 'the Third...
...York City last week, Irwin Blum, 10-year-old Bronx boy, became curious. Wishing to see how fire boxes work, he pulled in a false alarm. As the hose truck of Engine Co. No. 73 sped toward the non-existent fire, an automobile drove across its path. Swerving to avoid collision, the hose truck crashed into an "L" pillar. Fireman Henry Holster, father of four children, was killed...
There, a riot of cherry blooms and bright crocuses decked lawns and parkways. Elms and horse-chestnuts were "out." The advance ticket sale was fast and expensive. Dinner invitations sped the rounds, and tiaras came home from the vaults. With 100,000 Easter visitors in town, Washington prepared to prove itself a music centre that is "coming back...
...though the Chicago-Detroit highway was comparatively empty, he had nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a bleak landscape. Suddenly, as he crossed the Rouge River bridge, he heard the roar of a big car behind him and a Studebaker drew up alongside, smashed into him, sped on toward Detroit. Mr. Ford's Ford spun around crazily, bounced over a six-inch curb, tumbled down a 15-foot embankment, came to rest with the aid of a tree. That tree was a better stopping point than the Rouge River. Spitting blood, Mr. Ford climbed...
...blackbearded Australian soldier of fortune, searcher by air for an undiscovered continent, warmed up the Wright Whirlwind motor of a Stinson plane by leaving an oil heater in the hangar all night. The thermometer was at 50 below 0. Buckets of hot oil poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25° west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn southwest, fly two hours, then turn back to Point Barrow...