Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unnecessary to assure the addicts of Belloc biographies that this one charges along with the same speed and color as the rest, with the same impatient snorts at contrary opinions. It is not up to the standards of "Wolsey" and "Richelieu" and "Robespierre" because it is a much shorter work, and forms part of a popular biographical series of somewhat less than scholarly pretensions. But the Belloc flavor is only limited, not essentially impaired...
...Keynote address was delivered by Secretary Browder, who cried: "Our task is to win the majority of the working class to our program. We do not have unlimited time to accomplish this. Tempo, speed of development of our work, becomes the decisive factor in determining victory or defeat. For Fascism is rearing its ugly head more boldly every day in the United States...
Baker, Dr. Karl T. Compton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. George W. Lewis, Director of Aeronautical Research, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Clarence D. Chamberlain, Trans-Atlantic flier; James H. Doolittle, speed flier; and Edgar S. Gorrell, President, Stutz Motor...
While Harvard University has been pointing with pride to the College and many of its graduate schools, the Engineering School has been going down hill at a speed that will soon take it into oblivion unless drastic steps are taken...
...anesthetic which thus delighted Baltimore surgeons with its speed and freedom from ether's nauseating aftereffect is called evipan. Invented in Germany, it belongs to the barbituric acid group. Because other intravenous anesthetics have proved difficult to control its U. S. manufacturer, a Manhattan chemical company, is having it thoroughly tested before placing it on the market...