Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most exciting contest was that in which Richard W. Gilder '36 bested John G. Cornish '33 in a five game sidewall backhand speed duel...
Coach Wes Fesler had his men drill for the Jumbo zone defense yesterday, and polished off his rotating attack which now concentrates on getting the two tall men, Bill Gray and Captain Dick Boys, down under the opponents basket with the greatest possible speed...
...group of Harvard players who became National champions, Coach Cowles considers William P. Dixon '24, Melville P. Baker '22, and Herbert N. Rawlins, Jr. '27 as exponents of wall, corner and drop shots. Relying on skill in placing shots and using accuracy rather than sheer speed these players worked up to the top in the national ranks...
...break the world's landplane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.)* made by the late U. S. Pilot James Robert ("Jimmy") Wedell in 1933 has long been the goal of a heavyset, square-jawed Frenchman named Raymond Delmotte. One day last week, after a year of trying, 40-year-old Pilot Delmotte made five more unsuccessful attempts. On the sixth try, with his fox terrier mascot "Tailwind" in the cockpit, he shot his Caudron Renault monoplane four times over a measured course at Istres, zipped so fast (321 m.p.h.) on one lap that he averaged 314.1 m.p.h. for the four...
...World speed record for seaplanes (440.6 m.p.h.) was made two months ago in Italy by swart, tiny Francesco ("Crazy Boy") Agello (TIME...