Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each day's hunt lasted five hours. Contestants were scored on hunting (trying to pick up a trail); trailing; speed and driving (racing against one another in the chase); endurance. Misbehaviors which meant disqualification: "babbling" (barking to the extent of interfering with the chase); "loafing"' (showing no inclination to hunt); "running cunning" (failing to work fairly on a trail). Hounds sometimes run over 35 miles in five hours...
...hell did you want my soul for how do you know I have a soul who says so nobody says so but you the devil and everybody knows the devil is all lies." Arrested for driving 37 m.p.h. along London's Victoria Embankment (7 m.p.h. over the speed limit), Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, holder of the world's landspeed record (357.5 m.p.h.), with wicked cunning pleaded that he had "only just returned from America...
...National Guard, now a first-rate fighting force, should not be employed for police duty in labor disputes. This restriction would speed the recruiting of union members and the army needs skilled mechanics, trained workmen...
...former concert, November 13, Oldster Rosenthal prowled up to a special gold-lacquered piano in Carnegie Hall, bowed curtly before a tornado of applause, then pounced upon the opening measures of Weber's Sonata op. 39. Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still teach tricks to pianists half his age, still held his place among the world's top pianists...
...elements had necessitated keeping tied up to that point. He faked a kick, drew the whole Eli line in, and then shot a diagonal pass to Green, who was finally pulled down on the 40. A play later and "Flash" Macdonald was off on a tackle slant. Picking up speed despite the field, he went deep into enemy territory and was finally forced out on the ten-yard line...