Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bicycle team took its first training ride on Wednesday to Chestnut Hill Reservoir and back. It was intended to repeat this every day with increasing speed and distance till the track should be ready for use. The snow has stopped this for the present, but road work will begin again very soon, as there is prospect of a road race with Technology again this year...
...Senate Bill is objectionable. [a] Confused and complicated, Candler, Cong. Record, pp. 3551. [b] Bounty fixed by maximum speed, Springer, Cong. Recod, pp. 3566. [c] Perpetuates wooden vessels. [d] Appropriates a recklessly large amount...
Minnie Palmer is always with us, and last night at the Tremont she presented a play new to Boston, A Mile a Minute, introducing the wonderful English locomotive, running at full speed...
...Club last night, J. C. Powers '92 was elected to membership. The speaker of the evening was Lieut. J. B. Cahoon from the Thomson Houston Works. With him came several former members of the club now at work in Lynn. The subject of the discussion was the new slow speed car motor. This was described in detail and photographs of the various parts were exhibited. By the new arrangement 10 per cent. less current is required to do a given amount of work, and a speed of forty miles an hour can be obtained. The coils are also placed...
...feet, 6 inches beam, 4 feet depth of hold, with about 3 feet draught. She will have four inches more freeboard than the old launch, will be slightly fuller forward, not so full amidships, and will have two feet more water-line, which is expected to increase the speed of the boat. Her frames will be of oak and she will be planked with cedar. A cockpit will run nearly her full length and will be covered with a movable canvass awning. The engine and boiler will be housed. The launch will have a displacement of 16,956 pounds. Reilly...