Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chugs along the railway tracks at a speed of seven miles an hour, automatically squirting a splash of paint on all invisible defects in the rails that it passes over...
...kept pegging away at that record. Two-Captain Berrini and Lieut. Neri-died trying to beat it. Last week the last member. Warrant Officer Francesco Agello, whipped a Macchi 72 seaplane over the measured course at Lake Garda on the eastern border of Lombardy. Timing cameras recorded his average speed unofficially at 423.7 m.p.h...
...planting time. In his special farm message last month he warned Congress that "if we wait for another month or six weeks the effect on the prices of this year's crops will be wholly lost." Infected with his sporting spirit, the House passed his bill with blind speed. But the Senate sets itself above sun and seasons. Its refusal to compete with nature last week threatened to wreck the whole Roosevelt farm relief plan before it could get fairly started...
...hour and 25 minutes behind schedule. Pilot Noel B. Evans, Wartime flyer, of Yarney Speed Lines was bumping his way through a rain squall southeast of San Francisco one night last week. Behind him, in the Lockheed's darkened cabin, sat two nervous passengers taken aboard that afternoon in Los Angeles: a Mr. Herman Brown and a Mrs. Lavelle Lodwick of Hollywood. Driving rain beaded the cabin windows opaquely as the pilot nosed down over suburbs south of Oakland. He was presumably looking for an emergency landing field on which to bring his passengers to safety. Instead, he brought...
...doughnuts behind the stadium press stands is very likely to be the same as that sitting on the stairs to the organ loft of the new Chapel, but whether in the Lowell House common room or on Soldiers Field the cameraman must record the features of the celebrities with speed and certainty...