Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said President Roosevelt, he had asked them for ideas. What he wanted to know was how to make more jobs in industry. The problem, he declared, was to speed up certain industries for whose products there was large demand by people who could not afford to buy them. Railroad equipment and housing were good examples...
This left as the nation's Public Enemy No. 1 a female impersonator: Thomas H. Robinson Jr., who snatched Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll in Louisville, Ky. in 1934. Said Director Hoover: "It's only a matter of time. . . ." It was a matter of a few-days before G-men captured Robinson in Glendale, Calif. He had doffed the women's clothes in which he had frequently eluded his pursuers, disguised himself instead with a mustache. On Robinson his captors found $4,200 of the $50,000 Stoll ransom...
...when the general development of a student at his preparatory school will be accepted as a major factor in determining his fitness for admission. This day will undoubtedly come, and it can be safely forecast that the recent action of the Faculty Council has done much to speed the approach of that not too distant and highly desirable...
Speedsters on the embankment might look out for that seemingly harmless police launch. It churned up the river and came up alongside a speed-merchant on the road in a brand-new V-8 the other night, and put the see on him. (What they call an octopus in trout's clothes). . . . Seems to us Ann Marster's experiment in playing the horses hasn't been too great a success. We've been noticing quite a few reports lately starting, 'Only picked one winner yesterday' Back to getting the dirt on Harvard's wild cock-tail parties, Ann!. . . . Incidently...
...combustion chamber. When a car is bowling along at 40 m. p. h., its motor turns over about 2,000 times a minute, and one complete explosion lasts only 1/250th of a second. Of this brief performance the camera records 20 successive stages. The film runs continuously at crankshaft speed-up to 250 m. p. h. Light from the explosion passes through a heavy quartz window in the cylinder head to a stationary lens, thence to a series of 30 rapidly moving lenses which follow the film and hold each image motionless on it during exposure. The spark is seen...