Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seals came alongside, either in search of a meal, or else to play and sport with the fish. The weather was flat calm- no wind, water motionless, with barely perceptible swells. When swimming easily-not excited-the flying fish used their wings, not so much to assist their swimming speed as to increase their maneuvrability. Their main propulsion is by the very powerful tail...
When the seals came into the circle of light the fish were thoroughly frightened, and quickly gained speed and surfaced. As soon as the wings cleared ever so slightly they were flapped in flight-the motion being so rapid as to constitute practically a blur of movement, like the wings of humming birds...
...entertainment side, Miss Farmer's beauty, Mr. Arnold's laughter, Mr. Grant's clothes, Mr. Oakie's face, and the naive antics of post-Civil War Wall Street speed the picture's pace. Donald Meek provides an amusing if untrue underdog Daniel Drew. Hauntingly the refrain of "The First Time I Saw You" pervades the whole...
...were already masters in the technique of mixing sand, lime and water to form a smooth wall covering, painting it while still wet with wet pigments in extremely delicate and elaborate designs. From that day to this, however, the skill of the fresco painter has depended largely on his speed, because the time limit for doing any section of wall before the plaster gets too dry to absorb colors has never been more than 24 hours. Artists familiar with centuries of failures to extend this limit were electrified last week at a report from Mexico City that...
Half-believing friends' stories about the occult powers of the Indians, she became so excited by her first glimpse of the Southwest that she got off the train and hired a rattletrap automobile to speed her arrival. "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! ... I am Here," she announced to the "mythical" New Mexico landscape. Soon tired of Santa Fe, where the people were "too eager and cordial" ('"Why," she said, "should they be so glad to see me?"), she found in the village of Taos, 75 mi. from Santa Fe, what she was looking for. She rented...