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Word: speeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Rankin: "It is argued that the proposed increases are for defense but there is no assurance as to what the Government contemplates defending. . . . We maintain that a wholly abnormal naval building program on the part of the United States will intensify international tensions and distrust and increase the speed with which humanity is drifting into the general destruction of another World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Probe Continued | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Died. Francis Gladheim Pease, 57, astronomer of Mt. Wilson Observatory; after an intestinal operation; in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Pease, who was one of the first to measure the diameters of stars, designed a 100-inch telescope, completed the experiments of Chicago University's Albert Abraham Michelson in light-speed calibration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...organized labor because he (1 heads an agency for strikebreakers, 2 is chairman of Republic Steel Corporation, 3 called out the militia in a textile strike, 4 is a friend of the DuPonts, 5 invented an efficiency unit system which workers regard the same as '"stretch-out" or "speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Turner caught Johnson completely off guard on a long shot from the blue line early in the third period. It was then that the Stubbsmen finally woke up and combined speed and determination to keep the crowd on the edge of their seats for the rest of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Swamp Boston 'Y' as Sextet Ties Bengals, 4-4 | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

Harvard carried play to the Tigers relentlessly. At 6:04 Roberts picked up Cutter's pass at full speed to coast in and blaze the puck past Coleman. Hicks also received an assist. Hardling was on the scoring end of a combination with Patrick and Hicks at 11:35. Purnell was in the cooler at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Swamp Boston 'Y' as Sextet Ties Bengals, 4-4 | 2/17/1938 | See Source »

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