Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such an alliance would crimp if not permanently wreck the French military supremacy of Europe. At the very beginning of the Hitler Chancellorship it was an idea with which Il Duce toyed pleasantly. What he did not realize was the speed with which Hitlerite groups were spawning in southeastern Europe. Austrian Nazis had already outdistanced the older Austrian Fascist group, the Heimwehr, as a political force. They were springing up in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, even Rumania, and all taking their orders from Handsome Adolf. In Fulda three weeks ago a conference of German bishops announced that good Catholics need no longer...
Marion Lloyd, Miss Locke's clubmate who won the title in 1928 and 1931, fences with classic style and admirable poise, but flashing speed has lately enabled Miss Locke to beat her. She did it last week not quite so easily as the score suggested, 5-1, then came up against Miss von Hansa for the second time. It was a terrific bout. Finally at 4-all Miss Locke, attacking steadily, reached a climax of speed which her adversary could not parry, got home the winning hit. That settled the championship for another year, because all three...
Smallest player on the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team is their reserve right wing, 137-lb. Ken Doraty. In a way his insignificant appearance is an advantage: opposing defensemen find it hard to be prepared for the sudden bursts of speed his short legs can achieve. A bigger man is a better target for a bodycheck. Last fortnight little Doraty, at the end of his first year in major league hockey, did something that should insure him more: he ended an historically long game (2 hr. 44 min. 46 sec.) by scoring the goal against the Boston Bruins that...
...young men climbed into the open cockpit of a Travelair biplane one day last week at Oakland Municipal Airport. After a minute or so the propeller began to turn. The plane started down the runway, gathered speed, soared into the air, its propeller beating a loud tattoo but without any noise of engine exhaust. After circling the airport at 1,000 ft. for about 15 minutes the plane glided to a landing and out jumped the two young men, grinning broadly. Thus unpretentiously, aeronautic history was made. For the first time, a steam-powered airplane had flown...
...During the jams and sprints, where we keep up a speed of from 45 to 50 miles an hour, shifts are only two or two and a half laps long. In a hard night's riding we alteruate every two to ten minutes. Of course when the pressure slows up, as it usually does in the morning or early afternoon, we take longer shifts, 30 minutes apiece, maybe...