Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake Garda in northern Italy, Colonel Mario Bernasconi, commander of the Scuola di Alta Velocita (high speed school), took the controls of the "Red Bullet" seaplane in which Warrant Officer Francesco Agello lately made a new world speed record of 423.7 m. p. h. (TIME, April 17). Col. Bernasconi streaked around the measured course of the lake while timing cameras clicked. The developed films showed a speed (unofficial...
...flukes are the new Italian speed records, but the fruit of a determined program begun six years ago, after Britain won the Schneider Trophy on Italy's course at Venice. At that time Air Minister Italo Balbo established the speed school at Lake Garda, put Col. Bernasconi in command. The following year Italy upped the world record to 318 m. p. h., soon lost it again to Britain. Italy's efforts to regain the record took a frightful toll. She had pinned her hopes on a Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving...
...close race is predicted by Coaches Jim Erickson and Ed Brown. No practice races have been held except a run between Eliot and the Third Varsity which left the Elephants far behind. Although the Winthrop House crew has shown considerable potential speed on the river, Dunster and Eliot have exhibited great evenness of timing in the practice sessions. Eliot House, which has two boatloads of men to pick from, is the favorite in some quarters in spite of its extreme lightness. Winthrop, on the other hand, has entered a heavy crew...
...from earth's surface. At 54 mi. they burned themselves out. Two of the meteors spattered luminescent trains behind them, which Astronomer Olivier's men saw floating 50 to 60 mi. aloft. Wind drove one train upward at an angle of 55 degrees and a speed of 142 m. p. h. Wind drove the other train 90 m. p. h. up 35 degrees. No plane or rocket could maneuver in such mighty drafts...
...crowded. The tutors in Biochemistry in partionlar, since they cannot straddle the fields of biology, chemistry, and physics with omniscience, should investigate and advise. But the clearing up of the whole confusion can only come through a correction of the advertised laboratory hours to take into consideration both the speed of the average student, and the time necessary for the arrangement of apparatus...