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...instead of balls and they are driven from a portable, slope-topped wooden tee-the projecting end of the kangaroo is struck with a sharp downward chop to send it jumping as in tiddlywinks. A set costs $12.50. There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tiddlygolf | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Italian pride, rejuvenator, Renovator and high-speeder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Who Sings War | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...police claws" to mount on the front bumper of a patrol car, grab a speeder's rear bumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science v. Speeders | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Petersburg, Fla., Magistrate John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text of the Sunday School lesson in Magistrate Fisher's chambers. Five days after he had delivered his 13th report to the gratified magistrate, who by that time had received many a letter praising him for his enlightened act, Speeder Patterson was again brought into court, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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