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Word: speeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the second frame, the smooth-passing Blue and White held Harvard scoreless. Combining speed and finesse, they hit at 0:20 and outshot the Crimson, 11-7. The game remained deadlocked until Harvard's outburst in the last frame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Top Andys, Take Second in Row | 2/15/1968 | See Source »

...wing Serge Boily made it show on the scoreboard with a short-range shot at 14:26. Mickey Gray caught Harvard up ice and drove a shot from the Crimson blue line. The puck rebounded off the back boards past Diercks and Boily met it coming in at full speed, for the first period's only score...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: B.U. Stops Harvard To Win Beanpot Title | 2/13/1968 | See Source »

...reference points, the patrolman flips on the distance switch when he reaches the first point, turns it off as he passes the second. Now the patrol car's odometer has fed distance into VASCAR, which at the push of a third button automatically computes the average speed at which the motorist traveled the measured distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: Versatile VASCAR | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Test by Trials. By following the same procedure, highway police can get the speed of approaching cars. If the patrolman has measured and locked in the distance between two fixed points in advance, he can park unobtrusively off the road, clock the speed of motorists simply by turning the timer on and off as they go past. Already in use in 14 states and now being evaluated by 33 others, VASCAR, which was invented by Arthur M. Marshall, a Richmond real estate agent and lifelong tinkerer, will soon come out in a more sophisticated form, with a digital computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: Versatile VASCAR | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...that won a gold medal in the downhill for Jean Vuarnet at Squaw Valley in 1960. He dressed them in slick nylon stretch suits instead of baggy trousers and tops, switched them from wood to more maneuverable metal skis, made training an intensive, year-round proposition, stressed strength and speed over the niceties of technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: The Man to Beat | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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