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...hunting parifinalia were still found in his cabin, they claim he may have fallen into the river. Experienced trappers say that the Copper River has been very soft as this has been a warm winter for Alaska. The volunteers were seen going down the R. R. on a gasoline speeder toward the south-end again yesterday. The search will be continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Cocktails have two uses, social and physiological. As a loosener of tongues, banisher of formality, speeder-up of intimacies, it has no equal, but then any palatable spirituous mixture would serve equally well, if called a cocktail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Inspiration & Contrast | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Speed. Motor boats grow yearly more speedy. Most of the runabouts and outboard models will now do around 30 m. p. h. Called the "World's Fastest Stock Runabout" is the Baby Gar "50," built by famed Speeder Gar Wood. The "50'' will do 50 m. p. h.; the "55" (the same boat with a more powerful engine) will make 55. Swift, too, are Chris-Craft runabouts, the Chris-Craft Sport Hydroplane also reaching the 55 m. p. h. mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

leaned forward from the back seat of his Lincoln limousine, which had been halted in Matawan, N. J., by Policeman Sproul, to answer the policeman's question. Certainly, replied Mr. Rockefeller, the officer might stand on his runningboard and his chauffeur ("Phillips") might overtake a speeder the officer desired to apprehend. Mr. Rockefeller sank back again into the cushions, peered out at a mile of landscape which slipped by in about one minute, watched the officer hand their quarry a summons, handed the officer five new dimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Gustavus R Kirby, the man who as president of every athletic body in America has played such a large part in the recent history of track and field competition in this country, was the principal speaker of the evening. E. O. Stimson, the Dartmouth speeder who won the mile and the three-mile, one after the other, in 1876, told of the time when the Orange and Black team from Princeton carried away the first Intercollegiate title from Saratoga. He was followed by Dr. Graeme M. Hammond of Columbia, the iron man of American running. Although he did not figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Time Iron Men Tell of Days When Hurdles Were Hurdles | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

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