Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defense is one of Coach Skip Stanley's chief problems; right now he is alternating his new zone defence with the old man to man style of play. On the offense he is striving for more speed and scientific aggressiveness. Observers are predicting "more punch" for the 1937 edition of the first baseman's ball tossers. And there are a lot of good players...
...Commissars, for example, told the average Soviet freight train at what average speed it is going to run this year, decreed such things as how many gallons of milk per week the Cabinet plans that the average Russian cow shall give. On Jan. 1, 1937 there was nationwide Communist celebration of the State's announcements that every producing commissariat except that for Timber had "overfulfilled its production quota for 1936"-this quota having been set under the Second Five-Year Plan, which now has only eight more months to run. Statistics released last week with the Cabinet...
...that were true, generations to whom giant airliners will be a commonplace may yet thrill to one of nature's greatest sights -a giant condor taking off. Trotting down a slight incline with wings half spread, gathering speed, nosing up at full stretch, picking favorable currents, it spirals up, up, up 5,000, 10,000, 15,000 ft. to soar for hours without one visible motion of its magnificent wings...
When Donald MacDonald, 20, and Tod ("Speed") Morgan, 21, turned up on the broad beaches near Culver City and Beverly Hills a few months ago, they were just two handsome young men from the East, seemingly bent on harmless fun. As such they soon met a number of boys and girls. MacDonald told his new friends that he was the New England middleweight amateur boxing champion.- Morgan said he was a boxer too. A quick success with the girls, the pair persuaded a shy young appointee to Annapolis (whose name was withheld by the police last week) to let them...
...lately drawn midwestern crowds is the roller-skating derby, a cross between a dance marathon and a six-day bike race. The troupe travels from city to city, then skates in an arena a distance equal to the intercity journey. The skaters compete in mixed pairs, get cups for speed and endurance. Last week one such roller-skating troupe set off from St. Louis in a chartered bus to put on their show in Cincinnati...