Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blame their predicament on such inconsequential factors as the processing tax and Japanese competition. By inflexible economic laws, industry in the long run tends to locate in that section of the country where conditions are most favorable to its development. The future of New England will depend on the speed with which it recognizes this economic fact and begins to transfer its capital and labor into other fields of industrial activity...
...deftly dodges the cars in the Square. The odds are highly in favor of the runner. With the exception of taxis and the Coop truck any car can be brought to a dead stop by a calm but firm walk across its path. Cars never attain a dangerous speed in the Square; it is impossible...
...outside it was raining so hard that he could not see well. The bus started to lumber across a Baltimore & Ohio rail-road crossing, equipped with bell and safety signals, at exactly the same second that a B. & O. locomotive started to take the same crossing at top speed...
...fashion for gumshoes who, when they encounter corpses, malefactors and degenerates, enjoy a manic period of which wisecracks are the symptoms, started with The Thin Man. The Case of the Curious Bride is a less adroit, less original picture but the speed of Michael Curtiz' direction manages to create somewhat the same mixture of tension and amusement. Warren William, fast becoming Hollywood's No.1 exponent of deductive reasoning, is aided enormously by Claire Dodd in her first cinema performance as a nice girl...
...Orlando, Fla., the Brooklyn Dodgers offered a last trial to their onetime star pitcher, Arthur C. ("Dazzy") Vance who, now 42, had just been released by the St. Louis Cardinals. Wearing a pair of trousers much too short for him, Vance showed enough of his oldtime speed in practice to impress Manager Casey Stengel, became sure of a job when, two days later, the Dodgers' current pitching ace, Van Lingle Mungo, strained a muscle in his shoulder...