Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title, run 100 yd. in 9.4 sec. The 100-yd. world record, set by Southern California's Frank Wykoff in 1930, has never been broken but it has been tied so frequently that until this spring it appeared closer than any other to a final definition of the speed of a human runner. The expectation of Ohio State's Coach Laurence Snyder that his most famed protégé will break it by 3-sec. is based on the fact that, with a running start, Owens has covered the distance in 8.4. Traveling at full speed...
...lifeboats, lifebelts, steering wheel and her name itself. Lifeboats brought $31 to $101 each, the steering wheel $150. The scramble for lifebelts bearing the ship's name puffed the price to $42 each. The siren, which blared the Mauretania's way into port for 22 years as speed champion of the North Atlantic, sold for $252. Also knocked down for handsome prices were the ship's bell, signal flags, navigation instruments...
...deal of ferrying. Chief customer for Danish dairy products is Great Britain. The new bridge, crossing the Little Belt between Fünen and Jutland, is on the direct line between Copenhagen and London. At the same time that the Little Belt was spanned, a new service of high speed streamlined trains was inaugurated. Bridge and trains between them will cut the time between Copenhagen and Esbjerg almost 50%. As the service is extended it should also materially lower train schedules between Denmark and Hamburg, Berlin, and the rest of Eastern Europe...
Died. Thomas Edward Lawrence, 46, famed, mysterious War hero of Arabia; of injuries received in a motorcycle accident, caused when he swerved at high speed to avoid a child, catapulted over the handlebars; in Wool, Dorset, England. Welsh-born and Oxford-educated, Lawrence had been an archeologist in the Near East before the War broke. In Arabia he joined Feisal and Hussein (later Kings of Irak and the Hejaz), secretly raised and led Arab irregulars against the Turks. Shrewd, daring and adroit at dealing with Arabs, Lawrence made his forces "invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like...
Pride of all the Russias on its completion year ago was the all-metal super-airliner Maxim Gorki. World's largest land-plane, it weighed 42 tons, carried 63 persons, had eight engines, 7,000 h. p., a speed of 150 m. p. h. It cost 5,000,000 rubles (currently $4,350,000) furnished by popular subscription, took two years to build, contained a complete photographic studio, photo-engraving plant, electrically-driven rotary printing press (capacity: 8,000 newspapers per hour), broadcasting studio, sound cinema equipment, café-lounge, electric power plant, 16 telephones, observation saloon, business office...