Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Dick Harlow stressed blocking work and carrying out individual assignments yesterday afternoon, and put his usual emphasis on speed...
...bathing suit for publicity purposes. Among the gawpers was another publicity-minded person, fubsy, pink-chopped, little Harold Keates Hales, Member of Parliament who has achieved his place in the sun not by cavorting on a rope but by donating the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy for transatlantic speed (TIME, July 29).*The final masterpiece in a career of diligent eccentricity which includes never blowing his automobile horn, this gaudy prize periodically places Donor Hales in the public eye. Two months ago he trotted happily off to Genoa to present it to the Italian Liner Rex. Last week, accompanied...
Unfortunately, when peacock-proud Donor Hales first announced his Trophy, he offered it to the Rex, then holder of the transatlantic speed record, before he was ready to deliver it. Scarcely had the Italian Line accepted when the Normandie set a new record. To get around this development Harold Hales decreed that his trophy should be held by each consecutive winner for three months. The Italian Line displayed the $4,000 mass of encrusted silver in various places, finally brought it to Manhattan, put it in the window of their Fifth Avenue ticket office. Sweet to French hearts...
...world perched on a winged Victory sprouting from a plinth of mottled yellow onyx. Festooned around the middle is a brightly enameled Blue Ribbon. Attached elsewhere are models of old galleons, pictures of modern liners, statues of Neptune & Amphitrite. Atop the whole confection is a winged figure called Speed lunging forward with a liner held high in his right hand, while his left straight-arms a crumpling figure called Force of the Atlantic...
...modern oil prospecting by "artificial"' earthquakes and other geophysical methods. At Harmarville they saw how it was done. A charge of dynamite in the ground was detonated. The earth tremors were recorded on a seismograph mounted on a truck some distance away. From the shock record the speed of the tremors was deduced, and from that the geological character of the ground. Also on view were gravity instruments so sensitive that they detect the moon's tidal pull on the earth. With such equipment, said Research Director Paul Darwin Foote, the chance of a drill striking...