Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt got down to work, there was a lot to do and only ten days to do it in. Next week, he announced, he would go to Charleston, board the fast cruiser Indianapolis and probably speed under forced draft all the way to Buenos Aires to make a speech at the opening session of the Pan-American Peace Conference. Meantime he saw his Cabinet, consulted Budget Director Bell, for a Budget has to be made up before Congress convenes on Jan. 5. To questions of newshawks about new Cabinet members, he answered by saying all that would have...
...replacements, Cooke, a youngster and Ingram's first understudy, is likely to draw attention. A sharp-shooting passer, he promises to develop into a triple-threat. Ned Thomas and Charley Reimann, who started against the Irish in place of Ingram and Schmidt, both use their speed to advantage and Fay Wilsie is a first-class bucking and blocking back. In the line Gunderson and Janney at guard, Hessel at tackle, and Emrich and Bringle, ends, should see a good deal of action...
...Orleans lumber tycoon named Harry Palmerton Williams and a barnstorming pilot named James Robert Wedell, organized Wedell-Williams Air Service Corp., set out to design planes and run an airline. In a Wedell-Williams Racer Jimmy Wedell presently broke the world's landplane speed record. Meanwhile, Tycoon Williams sank $1,000,000 in the firm, made it the world's biggest privately-owned airplane service, flying several routes near New Orleans...
...wants to live to see them. His book is too crowded with well-to-do eccentrics to be a representative U. S. study. But literary motorists will object most to its pace, and reflect that no nation of murderously fast drivers ever chugged along so safely below the speed limit as do the slow characters of Clutch and Differential...
...speedy, for, as shown here, they frequently pull out to join the interference. The right guard on this play, a characteristic Notre Dame end run, must get into the picture ahead of the quarterback. When it is remembered that one of the chief characteristics of the system is speed, one gains an idea of how fast he must move to keep ahead of the halfback, who in turn must be off before a defensive lineman can shoot through the hole just vacated by the guard. The end run is the real basis of the Notre Dame system, with the play...