Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greenwich Village. Later in Yonkers, N. Y. sensitive John Masefield learned to abhor the Machine Age by working in a rug mill. Last week as the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom he told Welshmen that "the world subconsciously longs for poetry but it now invents substitutes, such as speed, to obtain the excitement which poetry would give...
...nightfall the new Government, consisting as yet only of Dr. de Cespedes, wanted some prop more stable than Cuban soldiers, many of whom were frankly on the loose. Ambassador Welles, constantly in telephonic touch with President Roosevelt, abruptly announced that three U. S. destroyers were steaming full speed for Cuba. With relief Provisional President de Cespedes cried, "The order of President Roosevelt sending three American naval ships to Cuba for the protection of American lives and property was issued with my full knowledge and approval. It carries no implication of intervention...
Most Cubans were abed when at 1:35 a. m. the U. S. destroyers Claxton and Taylor nosed discreetly into Havana harbor. They had dashed over from Key West. From Balboa the destroyers Sturtevant and Overton steamed full speed for Cuba and the U. S. Navy Department announced that eight more destroyers and two cruisers were ready to follow. Of these the largest was the brand new cruiser Indianapolis mounting 8-in. guns, on which President Roosevelt cruised last month...
Determine Speed...
Used on a distant nebula, this speedometer indicated that it was traveling at the rate of 2,500 miles an unheard-of rate of speed even for astronomy. Mathematicians worked over this and other results to prove that the distant nebulae are in some manner tangled up in the outer folds of the universe, so that their light waves are being broadened by the Einstein effect rather than by their speed...