Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
...High-speed tunnels, spinning tunnels, atmospheric tunnels, variable-density tunnels and propeller research tunnels are old stuff. This year two more were added to the list-a freeflight tunnel and a gust tunnel...
...Middle Ages in the midst of Modern Times-arc lamps, newsreel cameras, a radio microphone hanging high above the chancel, pneumatic tubes to speed copy from the pressbox to the telegraphs downstairs (see p. 39). The crowd that rose in the Abbey to greet their King was aware of all this. Five months of intensive propaganda had told them what this 1937 Coronation was held for: a gorgeous and expensive pageant of the solidarity of the British Empire and the permanence of British institutions in a changing world. Most of them had read many times other details of the procession...
...Collicr's was out one week ahead of the Hin-daiburg's arrival with an article describing the speed & comfort of the ship...
...track record of 2:01 4/5. Last week's running, in 2 :03 1/5, was, except for that one, the Derby's fastest, the more remarkable because the new starting line gave War Admiral 40 ft. less distance in which to acquire top speed before reaching the timing post...