Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington to deliver a box of orchids to Mrs. Roosevelt. After a 12-minute stopover he took off again, hopped to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field in an hour, zoomed the runways and landed at Newark ten minutes later. Elapsed time: 11 hr. 34 min. 16 sec. Average speed: 212 m.p.h. Immensely pleased at beating famed Pilot Doolittle's record by 25 minutes, unfamed Pilot Andrews grinned to newshawks: "It was duck soup. . . . Wait until I tell Grace...
...famed boll-boys was lecturing. He was lecturing well, in fact he was lecturing brilliantly. Bent over the desks were hundreds of unfortunates absorbing learning willynilly, their flying fingers striving in vain to keep pace with the gush of dates and of treaties that flowed forth with immense speed. Through Marlberough's campaigns sped Mr. Perkins with flying jaw, through the contemporary Continental complications, through the peace settlements, through the founding of the Whigs and of the Tories, until at last the cornerstone on which the edifice hung was about to be placed...
...Express elevator speed: Chrysler Building, 800 ft. per min.; Empire State...
When a smart promoter raised the idea of This Week two years ago, he found Joseph Knapp ready and eager to back it. Since his first attempt, Mr. Knapp had built up Alco Gravure, Inc., biggest rotogravure printers in the U. S. He acquired high-speed color presses that could whip out four copies per second of a magazine the size of This Week. With difficulty, Mr. Knapp's salesmen sold the idea to the 21 newspapers. Then they stormed the advertisers, booked for the first year some $7,000,000 worth of business...
Arthur H. Hall '38 suffered serious hip and arm injuries yesterday afternoon as the result of a plunge from the newly opened Mount Monadnock ski trail when, rounding a turn at breakneck speed, he lost control of his skis and swerved from the course...