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Word: speeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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High scoring honors for the Crimson went to Victor Francis who garnered three goals and assisted in three others. The forward line of Gorham, Winslow, and Erwin showed much speed, and with more practice should become a high scoring unity. The defense, Francis and Dan Roosevelt, proved steady in breaking up attacks as well as assisting in the scoring. Hard checking by Roosevelt contributed in stopping threats of Rindge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN PUCKSTERS BEAT RINDGE TECH 8-0 | 12/16/1936 | See Source »

...black, with white markings, to light tan or silver. . . . They have a flattened face with a human looking nose. The scientific name for the gibbon is 'Bylobates', which means treewalker. It is particularly appropriate as they swing through the trees by means of their long arms at a remarkable speed. They are the most beautiful natural acrobats and think nothing of swinging across a forty feet clearing and catching a pigeon in mid-air on the way over. They have the most perfect sense of timing. One gibbon pet in Indo-China used to juggle precious china cups or plates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Zoologist Leads Nine Months Trek to Study Agile Gibbons in Siam | 12/15/1936 | See Source »

London: As censorship breaks down and headlines scream, frantically milling crowds, for the first time since the Armistice, buy London papers so fast that presses whirling at top speed cannot meet the demand. In the House of Commons lobbies, politicians think the public reaction is hostile to the King and scamper for the Baldwin bandwagon. "I was for the King when it was purely a question whether he should be permitted to marry whomsoever he should choose," says beetling-browed Labor Radical James Maxton, "but when it is a dispute between him and the Government, I cast my lot with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...they leave the Duke is rumored certain to be King Albert I or King George VI (depending on which name he prefers to use) within a few hours or days, and at 1:31 a. m. King Edward VIII shoots out of Buckingham Palace, driving at terrific speed to his snuggery. Lights out at 2:13 a. m. The daily Court Circular, which is supposed to chronicle all important movements of members of the Royal Family, omits all of the above, fails to appear. The House of Commons: There are cheers for Stanley ("Old Sealed Lips") Baldwin and louder cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...French actress who recognizes Mrs. Simpson and tries to Kodak her gets a blow from the British bodyguard knocking her camera from her hand, her hat from her head. The Buick speeds in a westward zigzag around Paris, trying to throw newshawks off the chase. When Mrs. Simpson reaches Blois for the night the United Press correspondent blocks her Buick in the garage with his car, which he locks, and feels safe in dozing off in bed. But the Buick and Mrs. Simpson extricate themselves, speed on. She buys a French newspaper with the headline "King's abdication seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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