Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nicest of English prelates, Lord William certainly had the nicest white whiskers of any of them. As he cycled at a merry speed round his Devonshire See, his whiskers and Episcopal apron flapped in the wind and anyone could tell a mile off who was coming. Because of his thick whiskers which hid a very jolly face, his clergy nicknamed him "Love in a mist...
Said Skater Kit Klein (onetime, 1935-36, North American women's speed skating champion) : "This is the greatest thing next to real...
Bill Glendinning, heavyweight Crimson threat last season, has had a disappointing record. Lacking the speed and dexterity of his former triumphs, Glendinning bowed to Player of Navy and Charlie Toll of Princeton whom he beat last year in one of the most spectacular matches in the history of the sport. More notable has been the work of 118-pounder Harvey Ross whose only loss has been to blind heavyweight Allman of Penn. Easily taking in his stride minor opponents at M.I.T., Brown, and Tufts, Ross was one of the two who conquered at Navy...
Several foreign highway commissions have recently-reported with admiration on the 1.250 miles of Nazi-built superspeed highways (Autobahnen). On them British Minister of Transport Leslie Burgin was recently driven for some hours at an average speed of 89 m.p.h. "We have the best motor roads in the world!" cried the Führer, opening the 1938 show. "Soon we will build the cheapest car in the world!"This car, the famed Volkswagen or "people's car," often referred to in Nazi electioneering speeches, has been under development by German engineers since 1933, and the Führer...
...everlastingly inquisitive. Dr. Edith Haynes of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, a home economics student who became a bacteriologist in order to learn what happened in her pots, continued to experiment, found that sores kept sopping wet with a water solution of pectin* healed with extraordinary speed...