Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...develops between an eager and an advanced mind. Precisely because no two men are alike, the method and approach of one cannot help differing from that of another. Even if students were grouped so that the two intended to work together did so congenially and at approximately the same speed, and with generally similar thoroughness, they will have lost the benefits of intimacy with the instructor. In the personal friendship which frequently arises between tutor and tutee is something so valuable, be it ever so intangible, that to sacrifice it without first considering all alternatives would amount to injustice...
...four days, took second place in the speed race, first in the handicap. It was hailed the world over as the race's real hero because it carried a commercial payload of mail & passengers. Month ago when it returned to Amsterdam 50,000 Netherlanders turned proudly out to do it honor...
...caboose, to race from Chicago to Boulder City at 100 m. p. h., carrying an "iron lung", to save Allan Dexter's life. Before it reaches its destination, The Silver Streak barely escapes being wrecked at a drawbridge which closes a split second before the train arrives at full speed; rounds a hairpin turn at 100 m. p. h.; narrowly misses being derailed by a sleepy switchman; grazes a freight train; gets out of control on a downgrade when a passenger hits Tom Caldwell...
Because of the terrific physical strain involved, Pilot Breese had himself taped from head to foot before going up. At 20,000 ft. he leveled off, nosed his ship straight down at full throttle. He was making 425 m.p.h. when his air-speed indicator broke. He kept on diving, pulled his plane out successfully...
Irenee and Pierre du Pont admitted to a Senate committee yesterday that a profit of six per cent, plus an occasional bonus "to speed up work and encourage invention," would be sufficient for munitions manufacturers in a forthcoming war. This is an eminently reasonable attitude. Six per cent on a billion or so will provide any little luxuries that the family may require, and an attempt to obtain more might encourage some unthinking persons to question the whole matter of private profit in wartime. Besides, the returns from the last international skirmish have probably left a small balance...