Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Research Laboratory. One of the purposes of the experiments is to determine the size of the nucleus of an atom of any particular substance. In the course of their investigation the scientists also hope to find out if there are any other cosmic ray particles in addition to high-speed electrons...
...Crimson is two seconds in excess of the Yale record. Rogers and Cooke for the Yale quartet consistently swim their lap of the relay in 55 seconds. The other two members of the team, Christner and Willcox, are minute men. Since the Crimson relay swimmers average about the same speed, it is exceedingly difficult to make any prophecy as to the outcome of the event...
...last week a Lockheed Orion of his new Lineas Aereas Occidentals roared into Los Angeles, completing its first 1,700-mi. trip from Mexico City in 10 hr. Lineas Aereas Occidentales (Western Air Lines) will operate three planes a week over the route with five Orions used on Varney Speed Lines (Los Angeles-San Francisco...
...Hoevenberg run is the only place in the U. S. to practice a sport imported from Switzerland for the last Winter Olympic Games. It is a deep trench winding like an ice-lined gutter down the mountainside. Sleds ordinarily reach a maximum speed of about 60 m. p. h., gathering speed by riding high on the banks of its three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record...
...greater thrill of dodging a meteor. He was approaching Texarkana, said Pilot Hiram Sheridan, when a dazzling blue-white light attracted his attention. "I watched it for a minute or two," reported he, "and realized that it was coming straight at me. I changed my course and put on speed, but it looked like it would strike the plane in spite of all I could do. I banked sharply to the right and at about the same moment the meteor burned out and disappeared. . . . At the time it reached the altitude at which I was flying, it was just...