Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane he was leaving. Plane and tangled jumper plummeted into Lake Pontchartrain. The plane's pilot was also killed. On the bright side, James R. ("Jimmy") Wedell, an adopted favorite son of Louisiana who builds fast little Wedell-Williams ships at Patterson, cleaned up most of the speed prizes without much competition. He won three firsts, did not break the record he holds for land planes (305 m.p.h.), but smashed the record over the 100-kilometer course by 17 m.p.h. by streaking along in his Wedell-Williams "45" at 266 m.p.h...
Sirs: ...Is not Doktor Einstein's language German? JUDSON S. HUBBARD Denver, Col. President Roosevelt speaks German but not so fluently as he does French and Italian. Frau Doktor Einstein translated to speed up the talk...
...ability to move up & down the Trans-Siberian. And that rickety road is at present in notoriously bad condition for a major military action.* It can handle only a few thousand troops a day, provision only a small army on active service. But Russia is double-tracking at breakneck speed and, while it does, 200,000 Red troops guard the border from Lake Baikal to Vladivostok. Mean while contemplated under the Second Five-Year Plan is another transcontinental line running from Archangel to the Sea of Okhotsk, as a military backstop in case Japan does cut the Trans-Siberian...
Paying $2 for a license, Mr. Obadie took his fiancée up to the third floor. There they found an official seated at a desk under a dingy cupid. Whipping through the marriage service at top speed he pronounced them man & wife in less than a minute...
...skaters, by wide margins: the North American speed-skating championships, long held by Canada; in a driving wind at Oconomowoc, Wis. Chunky Eddie Schroeder of Chicago won the men's title, comely Kit Klein of Buffalo, the women's, Leo Freisinger of Chicago, the intermediate Richard Beard of Minneapolis, the junior...