Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fingerprints," urged the Leader, "are a protection to the family against kidnappers and fakes. . . . Fingerprints are more and more being used by the great insurance companies and banks of the country. Fingerprints afford definite means of identity to those who may meet with accidents or death. . . . Modern speed of living is resulting in increase of amnesia-loss of memory. Fingerprints would afford immediate identification...
...work yesterday afternoon consisted entirely of scrimmage. Each group was divided into two teams which worked against each other with a view to developing speed. Coach Stubbs has started the scrimmage work at this early date on account of the nearness of the first game, which will be played against M. I. T. on December 11. There will be another scrimmage today and none on Friday...
...Lacrosse, Coach Pool feels, should have great appeal because it possesses not only speed and ruggedness, but also a continuity of play, such as is associated with hockey. When a poor throw is made, the ball may readily be retrieved off the wall without necessitating any delay from whistle blowing...
Some 20 years ago socialites of the Royal Automobile Club fought a successful nation-wide battle to eliminate speed traps as "unfair and un-British." Discreetly from sources close to R.A.C. last week came threats: "It may become necessary to organize trigger squads of from 30 to 40 cars of air gunners and shoot up all the beacons in London." From his Ministry of Transport publicity-courting Major Hore-Belisha retorted, "We are rushing the construction of new beacons and will have installed 20,000 by Christmas...
...Transport Line, were sold for junk. As ships go, these namesakes of a pair of pre-War liners were not old. The Mauretania, launched in 1907, and the Olympic, launched in 1911, are still in transatlantic trade. But the Minnetonka and Minnewaska, built for comfort in an age of speed, took eight days from New York to London.* Comparatively exclusive, they carried only 400 one-class passengers in cabins amidships. Biggest cargo ships afloat, they rode rough seas smoothly. But they were slow, and because they were slow International Mercantile Marine sold them to the "knackers" last week...