Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the King's chauffeur put on such speed that only a most desperate chase could have caught Mrs. Simpson, but after her Buick flashed out of Ipswich, police swung one of their cars squarely across the road and blocked traffic for ten minutes. Eminent London counsel in Ipswich for the Assizes who had previously called stories about the King and Mrs. Simpson "vulgar American tosh," ended by admitting to U. S. correspondents in Ipswich that in their entire experience at the British Bar they had never witnessed such proceedings, concluded that Ipswich authorities were acting to please Edward...
...with two wives is committing bigotry, Ethel Merman lifts a brazen voice, rolls a comic eye. Roly-poly Bob Hope (Roberta} is coyly engaging as the young-man-who-has-lost-the-girl-with-the-iron-burn. Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior decorator, sings a song called "A Little Skipper from Heaven Above," in which he experiences frightful difficulty making his accompanying octet let him take the high note solo. Nevertheless, age has evidently made...
...motor race (TIME, Oct. 19) you implied that the reason the U. S. cars were so soundly beaten was that they were not adapted to the Roosevelt Raceway type of circuit. This opinion, widely held, is only partly right. It is true that the Europeans, with their multiple speed, quick-shifting gearboxes and tremendous brakes had a great advantage, but it is equally certain that they could trounce any of our cars on any kind of a course...
...most prodigious racing machines ever seen. The Italian Alfa-Romeos and the German Mercedes and Auto Union, which are their match in every respect, have engines of over 400 h.p. in cars which weigh less than half the weight of a Chevrolet, and they have all exceeded a speed of 200 mi. per hour on the straight. They have had lavished on them every available facility of the manufacturers who build them in the way of engineering development and testing, it is said at government expense. They have the most advanced forms of supercharging, independent wheel suspension on all wheels...
After winning the first race and finishing second in the second, Fullerton collapsed and was only able to pick up a pair of elevenths in the remaining tilts. Rousmaniere, meanwhile, kept going along at the same speed garnering two fourths and two fifths against competition in his division...