Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Point number one was the difference in carrying between the Green and Crimson. The Indians ran very hard. When the ball carrier took the pigskin from center he headed for the Harvard line full speed ahead, and he forced several yards even after he had been hit. Those Dartmouth men were running low and driving; Harvard was running with less decision, high, and easily toppled over. Another point under this head: Blaik has trained his men to run just as hard when they are running interference as when they are carrying. Harvard blockers wait for the attacker to approach; Dartmouth...
Stoll. The kidnapping of wealthy young Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll of Louisville, Ky. fortnight ago, put the Division of Investigation ("D. O. I.") agents on their mettle. Mrs. Stoll, ill with a cold, was seized shortly after 3 p. m. from her suburban house by a man with a revolver and a lead pipe. The Stolls did not ring famed NAtional 7117 in Washington, as every kidnappee's family is supposed to do. The first thing that D. O. I. Director John Edgar Hoover knew about the case was when he received a telephone message...
Colonial: "The Farmer Takes a Wife"--Max Gordon of the New York Gordons is stopping in Boston with his new comedy which he plans to open in Gotham with the greatest possible speed. Opened last night and will be reviewed soon...
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 18--Federal agents tonight had their first definite clue to the direction of flight taken by Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., former insane asylum inmate sought as the kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll...
...group then fell again in silence. He raised both hands toward the sky, a moments wait, and then, two objects fell from his steady fingers. The size of one was many times the other, and yet, as they sped past the pillared balconies, the waiting men below observed their speed to be the same, then with resounding thud, they fell simultaneously to the soft grass below, landing as one object. The outspoken comments of the gathering rose to loud clamor at this feat of nature. Should a heavy body fall faster than a light one? The man in the balcony...