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Word: speeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against Austria and then Germany. In World War II, the Soviet Government has been rapidly swallowing Polish territory while describing itself as "neutral." Last week Moscow, in an official declaration to Bucharest, declared that so far as Rumania is concerned Russia will remain "neutral." Many Rumanians believed that the speed with which the U. S. S. R. nipped in and took southern Poland before Germany could do so, thus keeping the Reich from getting a common frontier with Rumania, also nipped what may well have been German Nazi plans for surging into Rumania synchronously with the assassination of Premier Calinescu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Blood for Blood | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Part of the work of the recently created Bureau of Supervisors will be to conduct a course in Remedial Reading which will be given the first time this Fall to improve and speed up the reading habits of a limited number of Freshmen, it was learned yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Receive New Reading Instruction to Raise Eye Speed | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...experiment, a group of sixteen Freshmen showed marked improvement in reading skill and some advance in scholastic standing, after eight weeks of special training last fall. They increased their reading speed by 50 percent, gained in reading accuracy, and altered for the better their habits of eye movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Receive New Reading Instruction to Raise Eye Speed | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...Ford protege, later as an independent, Inventor Stout: 1) built the famed Ford tri-motor plane, 2) organized one of the first commercial airlines (Detroit-Cleveland, Detroit-Chicago), 3) designed the "Scarab," first U. S. rear-engine car on the market, 4) designed one of the first high-speed, gasoline-driven streamliners, 5) netted more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Turtle to Batwing | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Reginald H. Phelps '30, Registrar of the College, in a statement last night, mentioned that most of the Monday registrations in former years have come between 10 and 12 o'clock in the morning, and advised early registration to avoid crowds and to speed up the process of getting through Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 991 Register, Contribute $1,675; Close to 2,000 Expected Today | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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