Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seize the Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits, losing five capital ships to two for the U. S. With the enemy fleet swept from the sea the U. S. soon retakes Guam...
Because of the brilliant performance of Kari Warner of Yale, Harvard's crack relay team met defeat Saturday evening at the 44th annual B.A.A. games in the Garden. He started on his anchor leg eight yards behind Captain Philip Dodge, and won largely through a terrific burst of speed on the back stretch of the second lap, by a margin of two yards. Locke, Calvin, and Morse were the other Crimson runners. The time was 3 minutes, 27 seconds...
...Heil Hitler! Deutschland erwache! Juda verrecke!" they bellowed as he emerged waving his black felt hat. "Hail Hitler! Germany awake! Perish Juda!" Wasting not a second, Chancellor Hitler piled into his Mercedes beside the chauffeur, shot off between lines of police to form his Cabinet with record speed. There were rumors, doubtless untrue, but alarming, that General von Schleicher & Friends were about to attempt a "General's Putsch" and proclaim restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. In less than an hour the new Hitler Cabinet had met for a brief conference in the Reich Chancellery and Germans were staring...
Wherever held, Manager Henderson intends to limit the races to high-speed ships, eliminate events for commercial types, cut out all cross-country derbies except the transcontinental Bendix Trophy; slash admission prices...
...paddle-wheel driven by a 120-h.p. engine. Each paddle-wheel is composed of three blades to provide lift and forward thrust. The angle of each blade shifts as the whole wheel revolves, thus giving thrust in any direction desired by the pilot. Rate of the wheel at cruising speed: 400 r.p.m...