Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venizelos told with frenzied, expressive gestures how it all happened: "The assassins! My wife and I were motoring from Amaroussi to Athens when I saw a green seven-passenger car. So! It allowed my car to pass and then they opened fire. ... I ordered the car to dash full speed toward Athens. The assassins reloaded and kept firing at us for three miles. All the time I kept asking my wife whether she had been hit but she said...
...amazement of racing observers, Winner Meyer set a new record despite the frequent refuelings and track-clearing delays. His average speed was 104.162 m.p.h. as against the record of 104.144 set by Frame last year. Meyer's car was a Miller special which he rebuilt for the race, sponsored by Tydol Oil Co. Meyer now ranks with Tommy Milton (victor in 1921 and 1923), the only men to win the race twice...
...Indianapolis Speedway was built of a dirt, sand and tar mixture in 1909, rebuilt of brick in 1910 by Carl Fisher, later famed for his promotions at Miami and Montauk Point, and the late James Allison of Allison Engineering Co., to accommodate a top speed of 80 m.p.h. Automobile speeds have so increased that no car may now race at the Speedway unless it can go 100 m.p.h. The track is graded at 45° on the turns, 20° on the short straightaways, flat on the stretches. The only attempt to improve it since it was built was just...
...ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good hot band where he can introduce himself as "The Reverend Satchel Mouth" and proceed to triple-tongue a cornet at incredible speed...
...sole survivor of Italy's 1931 Schneider Cup team, whipped the seaplane Red Bullet over the course for a new world record of 423.7 m.p.h. A month later his chief, Colonel Mario Bernasconi, was timed unofficially at 434 m.p.h. Last week Warrant Officer Agello, leader of the speed school, tried the course again in his Red Bullet. Timing cameras, again unofficial, caught his speed at 440 m.p.h...