Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, informed members of the Electrochemical Society of the present progress and problems of rocketry. He pointed out that the burned gas molecules shoot out of a rocket's combustion chamber at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. per sec. A rocket traveling at this speed would be 100% efficient, since all the recoil force of the molecules is turned into forward thrust...
...method employed by the artist. His own technique, he said, is based upon direct painting, beginning immediately to develop the drawing, form, and color with the brush. This method, he feels, tends to produce work with greater vitalfty and accuracy because the mind apparently operates most efficiently at top speed...
...milkwagon driver who, in order to preserve his feeble physique, has perfected the art of ducking punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight Champion "Speed"' MacFarland. Acclaimed for the knockout, Burleigh is urged by MacFarland's manager (Adolphe Menjou) to try prizefighting professionally. He accepts, to raise money to help cure Agnes, his ailing milkwagon horse. The story that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect...
...skill is provided, too, in navigating the bus around the loop. At the very start, a narrow door presents no mean obstacle, and is immediately followed by a difficult curve which exacts close concentration to keep the trolleys on their cables. Then comes the straightaway in which the maximum speed of 88 m.p.h. can almost be reached before the brakes must be applied...
...bouts were almost uniformly high in calibre; much speed was displayed and a good deal of hard punching was in evidence. The Freshmen showed great potentialities and the match was altogether a very promising first appearance...