Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crate of beer from which the soul of Cambridge flows to an avaricious printer, there is a complete building with its own press, private rooms for about fifteen different sorts of editor, dozens of telephones and typewriters. a dark room where photographs can be transformed into blocks at lightning speed, an editorial room where all those not important enough for rooms of their own hammer hard-boiled news paragraphs on to typewriters with the efficiency of trained secretaries, real paid secretaries too, for the big-wigs, a club room for the staff complete with library, piano and radio...
...good account of himself at Rome in a fencing bout with Signor Mussolini, expert duelist. Commented a professional fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute bout: "Mussolini was faster and more agile. He showed his years of constant training. Göring was the stronger. He showed surprising speed for a man of his size and revealed himself to be an accomplished swordsman." It was vital to observe last week how blunt-how surcharged with what was evidently a feeling of Might-were the summaries given to correspondents in Rome and Berlin of what Mussolini and Göring talked...
...Chinese engineer of the Hongkong-Canton Express kept it going full speed last week after fire broke out in the middle of the train. Three wooden rear cars burned down to their steel underframes and more than 100 Chinese passengers were roasted to death in the speeding pyre. Said the engineer when his train was finally stopped: "I didn't notice it had caught fire...
...Comedian Oliver Hardy (284 lb.) whom he can pick up with one hand. When not in residence with Hardy he is "somewhere in the desert" where he is supposed to own a silver mine or gold mine. He has two Lincoln Zephyrs and supercharged Ford, specially geared for high speed. He is about 33, 5 ft. 10 in 220 lb. He is built like a wrestler, wit tremendous hands, bulldog shoulders and biceps half again as big as Jack Dempsey's. His face is handsome, disposition genial. He can consume abnormal quantities of whiskey. He frequently stays...
...match of professional speed amateur deception. Lean young Norbert Setzler, one of the New York Racquet Club's five professionals, depends on sizzling forehand that shoots down the side of the court, dies at the back wall. His opponent, David Milford, a British schoolteacher at Maryborough, uses a delicate drop shot. For six games, Setzler's speed and Milford's cunning were evenly matched. In the seventh, Setzler behind at 7-10 and apparently dead tire amazingly began to hit the ball harder than he had since play started, took eight of the next ten points...