Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words on two wave lengths, 20.64 meters for the Western Hemisphere, 38.47 meters for the East. So that even poorly equipped stations could receive, the League slowed down its 130 words-per-minute automatic transmitters to a crawling 25 words-per-minute pace. Soon Washington asked for a speed-up to 75, impatient Shanghai clamored for 100. But Buenos Aires said they could handle not more than 30 words-per-minute and the League refused to flash faster than that. Long before the ten hours were up, the Imperial Japanese Government and they alone had received the whole...
...turn on the steady legs and endurance of a sophomore middle distance runner, Quimby, who entered the University club meet last week and won the mile in 4 minutes 28 seconds--good time in a crowded field. Hillman has primed him to reach the. Triangular Meet games at top speed, ready for duels with Cornell's Intercollegiate mile champion. Jee Mangan, in both the mile and 1000 yard run. Mangan won both events a year ago and is favored to repeat this season...
When they tried shortly after 2 a. m. to return to the De Zeven Provincien she had vanished. In an open boat one of her junior officers rowed ashore, told how the native crew had mutinied, put all junior officers except himself in irons and steamed full speed out into the Indian Ocean...
...market left scant demand for sport ships like theirs, but also left plenty of time for experiments with racing designs. With his smart Chief Engineer Robert L. Hall (since resigned) Granville produced the Gee-Bee Super Sportster in which the late Lowell Bayles broke the U. S. land plane speed record at the National Air Races in 1931. It was in a new Gee-Bee that famed "Jimmy'' Doolittle broke that record and made a new world record (296 m.p.h.) in last year's races...
...began construction of a barrel-shaped transport ship patterned directly after the racer. Its wing is larger but its fuselage is barrel-shaped, its tail big, its nose fat to hold a 700-h.p. Cyclone. With pilot & seven passengers it is supposed to cruise 197 m.p.h., hit a top speed of 230, land under...