Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean a three to eight room suite within the arbitrary time limit of 15 minutes. It is the so-called "economy" which is to be criticized...
...aroused by three old codgers (probably ex-Congressmen) talking very loudly--perhaps all are a bit deal--on an adjacent couch. You hear them, as I have sigh and reminisce of the days of Ariemus Ward and James Whitcomb Riley and Uncle Joe Cannon. You hear them curse the speed of the modern generation; you hear them chastise the youth for no longer reading Dickens; you hear them boasting about their remarkable powers of endurance even at the age of 81 and 79 and 73. They mention philosophers, and one of them recalls the day when "the name Spinoza didn...
...Vice Commissar rattled off that since 1930 the Red Navy has been increased 435%; Red machine guns 215% for infantry and cavalry, 700% for planes and tanks; Red light tanks 760%; medium tanks 792%; heavy artillery 210%. Finally the Red Air Force has been increased 330%, the average speed of combat planes doubled, average cruising range tripled...
...Nederland en Koloniën (Royal Dutch Airlines) last week blamed the crash of its famed Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork) in the Syrian Desert six weeks ago on lightning (TIME, Dec. 31). According to KLM's experts who examined the wreckage, Uiver hit the ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting. And the bodies of six victims...
...worked out in default of the money that no Congo Negro possessed. In his fascinating yarn Herr Bauer has made the most of the contrast between black man and white king. When he is writing of Stanley's trip down the virgin Congo, the prose picks up speed, attains poetic concentration. The translation, by Eden and Cedar Paul, is unobtrusively good...