Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter. Not since the War has a Frenchman been able to poke a 100-franc bill at the Treasury cashier and get a "Louis."* All France tingled with pride as Premier Flandin categorically declared: "The coining is being hurried and gold coins will be put into circulation with all speed. By the end of this year 1,200,000,000 francs will have been coined in gold...
Competition among the cindermen will begin next week at the annual spring handicap meet, open to all members of the University. An added feature of the race this year may be the presence of Chuck Hornbostel, Indiana speed artist now enrolled at the Graduate School...
...only effect the sea waves may conceivably have is an indirect one: inevitably they affect the course and speed of the firing ship, and thus, indirectly, the initial velocity of the projectile...
...their hideaway. Nonetheless, the picture can by no means be pigeonholed as a feeble foreign imitation of the films which many cinemaddicts found among the most satisfactory ever made in the U. S. Alfred Hitchcock's direction, in which the story is told in sharp, abbreviated sequences gathering speed steadily toward their explosive climax, makes The Man Who Knew Too Much one of the neatest melodramas of the year. Furthermore it includes the first English-speaking cinema performance of Peter Lorre, who, as the chubby, anarchist fiend, enacts a part which admirers are likely to consider comparable...
Father Cox had the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service speed reporters to Federal Emergency Relief Administration headquarters in Washington. Was FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins "becoming concerned over the birth rate among families on relief?" No! "Was he gathering information on the subject?" No! Assistant FERAdministrator Corrington Gill rushed off a telegram to Father Cox: "FERA has not collected statistics of this nature...