Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military power far superior to us in strength for offensive purposes and full of aggression which might take at any time a hostile attitude toward this country. . . . I say it with full responsibility, that at the present moment Germany has 10,000 bombing planes of long range and high speed, and capable of carrying something approaching a ton each of high explosives. That is a terrible danger to this country. . . . The only way it can be met is by letting any possible enemy know that they will get the goods they give. . . . Britain may have to spend...
...called "dumb bunny" sections where they deal with fundamentals and learn the truth about history in as painless a way as possible. Between the two outposts, the C-men go on at their accustomed pace, neither hindered by their inferiors nor painfully stepped-up by the comparatively breakneck speed...
Even after all these things are arranged General Denain's work in Italy will not be finished. On Lake Garda Benito Mussolini operates the finest training school for high-speed flying in the world. His official visit ended. Air Minister Denain will spend several days at this and other Italian training schools to see if there are any new wrinkles to be picked up to teach his own blue-clad cadets...
...Roxbury, Mass, clergyman had a large idea far removed from his pulpit. Coaching Harvard's crew for its first race with Yale had taught Rev. Samuel Calthrop how smoothly a racing shell slips through water. He knew that the chief resistance to a railway train at high speed was the atmosphere. Rev. Calthrop took pencil & paper, invented an "Air-Resisting Train" that was a perfect conception of aerodynamic streamlining. That was in 1865, and the "Air-Resisting Train" never got any further than the U. S. Patent Office. Like most basic inventions, it earned its owner nothing...
Grey-eyed, Brindle Gangster had already won three Australian championships before he was imported in 1932 by John Pesek, heavyweight wrestler of Ravenna, Neb. Since then he has won the Waterloo twice. Calm and well-mannered in the paddock, he has unsurpassed speed in the field, turns quickly, keeps his eyes on the rabbit, dives beautifully for the kill. Owner Pesek. who boasts the largest greyhound kennels (200 couple) and one of the finest pairs of cauliflower ears in the U. S., has refused $10,000 for Gangster...