Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since before the Cornell game, head coach Dick Darlow drove his Varsity squad through a full-speed scrimmage yesterday afternoon. Only player withhold from contact work was right guard Dave Glueek, but he will be o.k. for Saturday, thus giving Harlow his first full squad since the year began...
...Sheridan Downey's campaigning topics was old age pensions. The yearning throngs of oldsters who were beginning to cluster around Dr. Francis E. Townsend heard him lecture, by invitation, at their meetings. Mr. Downey liked the Doctor's monthly-spending provision-to speed trade velocity. When EPIC crashed, Sheridan Downey became attorney for the Doctor and his Plan. The Doctor's subsequent flirtations with Father Coughlin, Gerald Smith (inheritor of Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" movement) and Representative William Lemke cooled Attorney Downey. He and the Doctor drifted apart...
...industrial district. In the "Loop" itself the lines will run under Dearborn and State Streets, a block apart, with communicating passenger tunnels connecting their continuous platforms at seven consecutive "Loop" streets. Effect of the system when promised unification of Chicago's transit lines is achieved will be to speed up "L" time by making possible a reduction in number of overhead trains, and to relieve congested street cars and bus lines in the newly tapped districts...
...first practical development of a radio-run absolute altimeter. From a transmitting antenna on one wing, radio waves are bounced groundward, caught on the rebound by a receiving antenna on the other wing. The elapsed time interval is measured in millionths of a second at radio's speed of 186,300 miles per second, is translated into feet on the altimeter...
Widener's new call cards with their mystifying holes and clipped corners are a part of the system installed during the summer to speed up the library's method of keeping record of borrowed books...