Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice was slow and cold, but picked up speed as it went along. "Listen, World! Some people give me a pain in the neck. Harvard men think they ought to go places just because a few of them have old men who make dough. Do they ever think of the good, honest Americans who slave away so they can live off the fat of the land? They do not! Well, let me tell you, it's a plenty raw deal for the rest of us!" The Vagabond groaned, as the face drew nearer and said. "Listen. Vag! Let Elsie Robinson...
Absent Transvestite. In the Federal district court at Louisville a kidnapping trial began without the actual snatcher. To tne witness stand went rich young Alice Speed Stoll, daughter-in-law of a Louisville oilman, to tell how Thomas H. Robinson Jr. had abducted her from her suburban home in October 1934, held her captive in an Indianapolis apartment for the next six days while dickering for $50,000 ransom (TIME, Oct. 20, 1934). 'Napper Robinson's eccentricity is transvestitism. Since he habitually wears women's clothes, Government agents have not yet been able to pick...
...Washington last week Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams anxiously announced that eleven Army engineers were in the field, would shortly report on ways to speed up relief construction. Along with this promise to do better, relief officials also let it be known that the lag in relief progress was not all their fault. Tactfully they pointed out that Comptroller General McCarl had released to date only $585,000,000 for $1,900,000,000 worth of WPA projects approved by President Roosevelt...
Though his charges have won their first two engagements, Coach Carr is wary of today's results. Combined with the undeveloped potentialities of his own team is the speed and power of a veteran Cadet aggregation eager to avenge its last two defeats...
...promotion to just this need. George Blackwood did a very satisfactory job as full back against Holy Cross, but he is a little slow for offensive purposes. Struck is far less experienced than Blackwood and doesn't "know" as much football as does the capable Blackie, but his greater speed and his possible ability in forward passes, as a receiver, has given him the jump for this game at least. It remains to be seen whether or not he will provide the necessary added punch...