Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure he was on the right track, Publisher Abell spread himself more & more for stories. He ran special trains from Washington with Government news, used express riders and carrier pigeons to speed his copy, foreshadowed modern press associations by cooperating with other newspapers for the good of all. When the "magnetic telegraph" of Samuel Finley Breese Morse became practical in 1844. Mr. Abell soon woke up to its value, put in a newswire...
...Vassar's course in marriage, Harvard's lead in educational liberalism has been recaptured by the announcement that a course in child psychology will be given next year. At long last the University has succumbed to the silent protest that the scholars in Cambridge learn how to read and speed but not the science of upbringing. Perhaps the public feels that Harvard men will make poor fathers, or no fathers at all, after seeing them emerge from Widener, bleary eyed and exhausted. Perhaps it feels students should have some other outlet besides riots for their pent-up emotions. Perhaps...
...Adams pitching talent was uncovered as Morris G. Manker '38 and Irving H. Soden each spent two innings on the mound. Soden dazzled the Puritans in the fifth by striking out two of them with his sizzling speed balls...
...three years ago an Independent Stockholders' Committee started a proxy battle to oust the management because of mounting deficits. The attack fizzled when Reo's onetime President Richard Hugh Scott decided that he wanted no feud with old Chairman Ransom Eli Olds. In 1935, increased success with Speed Wagons and heavy duty trucks enabled Reo to finish the year with a deficit of only $220,000, a reduction of $738,000 from 1934. But last year the deficit swelled to $1,399,000. This included $605,000 for extraordinary expenses occasioned by discontinuance of Reo's passenger...
...researches, Curator Coates enlisted the aid of New York University's Physicist Richard T. Cox, who helped him rig up testing apparatus which demonstrated that the eel's current courses along its body at the rate of 1,000 meters per second, approximately ten times the speed at which impulses travel along the nerves of man. Last January, Physicist Cox & party set sail for Brazil to delve further into the eel's mysteries. Last week's capture was the first news from them, but next fortnight they will start home with their findings. Christopher Coates snorts...