Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis Miller, 6, is the pride of University of Pennsylvania psychologists because of his speed in solving arithmetical problems in his head. To the Press, however, he is the Philadelphia Pinochle Prodigy. Playing three-handed pinochle with a sly expression which makes him look like Jackie Searl, Prodigy Miller puts his mental agility to good use calculating the cards in his opponents' hands...
Marvin C. Ettlinger, 9, son of a University of Texas mathematics professor, will be a senior next month in Austin (Tex.) High School. Credited by psychologists with a reading speed of 2,200 words per minute, Marvin has already covered the reading of a four-year college chemistry course. At his present rate of progress, he should have no difficulty in entering University of Texas...
...minute flight to Point Barrow. The plane had soared about 50 ft. when the motor sputtered. Post banked steeply to the right in a desperate effort to get back to the river. But the ship, loggy with the drag of its bulky pontoons, lost flying speed. Out of control, it fell off on one wing, crashed heavily on the river bank...
...Carriers. What the ICC regulations will be like was clearly indicated at the Congressional hearings on the Motor Carrier Bill. With the Michigan statutes as a model, the ICC promised to work out Federal regulations fully as drastic. Michigan requires daily records and monthly reports, "reasonable" rates, a maximum speed of 50 m. p. h. for buses, 35 m. p. h. for trucks. It prohibits standees in buses, smoking or drinking by bus drivers on duty, prescribes a maximum daily driving period of twelve hours on, ten hours...
Said Illinois' Governor Henry Horner after his policeman-chauffeur exceeded the State speed limit of 45 m.p.h. by as much as 25 m.p.h. on a trip from Joliet to Springfield: "I am still an advocate of sane speed laws, but the 45-mile limit merely serves as a check. Our speed . . . was not unsafe...