Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frankel left Cambridge at the cerio hour of midnight as the chime made Monday, Tuesday, on his three speed English bicycle and armed with the letter from Mayor Russell he sped...
...Harvard, Columbia) know less about such things than do the staff of London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who are regularly in touch with cases from Great Britain's African possessions. Last week Edwina Booth's plea to the New York Supreme Court to speed up her damage suit against M-G-M was on the ground that, practically penniless, she needed money to travel to London for treatment...
...liner drew close it steered slightly to port of the lightship and speed was reduced to 16 knots. The oscillograph detector was not used to find the distance, but the liner's position was computed by cross-bearings from shore radio stations. Few minutes before the crash, while the beacon indicated the lightship to be three degrees off the starboard bow, the signals were suddenly lost. The oscillograph detector went dead also. Then the lightship's fog whistle was heard. Every officer on the Olympic's bow agreed the sound was off the starboard bow. To play...
...more pleasant than that of the average newshawk. His office was above his apartment in a penthouse a few doors off lower Fifth Avenue. There every morning he would digest the daily newspapers arranged for him by a secretary. He might go out to luncheon with a banker, or speed to Washington for a White House press conference. In the afternoon, working in shirt-sleeves and puffing a pipe, he would write his daily 1,200 word dispatch in longhand. His secretary would pick up a private telephone to Western Union to put it on the cables...
...York, May 22 (UP)--Somewhat bewildered by the age of speed and the miracle of radio, which her husband fore saw with uncanny accuracy almost 50 years ago Mrs. Edward Bellamy came to New York from Massachusetts today to sit in wonderment before the panorama of Broadway...