Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very bad crash because of the tremendous speed and death was in stantaneous...
...undertook to spiral towards the ground. When a few hundred feet from earth he should have righted the machine and planed down, but either because he lost control of the machine, or became dizzy or ill, he failed to do so and plunged to the ground at a speed of an hundred miles an hour. Mr. Meeker has received the decoration which his son received at the time of his first promotion...
...training in every branch of the electrical science in any way conected with radio work. During the first few weeks the instruction covers only the most elementary portions of the work, whereas in the latter part of the four months' training all of the time is spent in gaining speed and accuracy in operating the radio telegraph and in the theory and practice of the various instruments used by radio operators. At the end of the course a sailor is prepared to assume the duties and responsibilities of either a land or sea station. Ordinarily the graduate is graded...
...harriers put in a very strenuous afternoon yesterday, when special attention was paid to speed. The work began with five moderately fast laps, and one lap at almost full speed around the Stadium track. A two-mile walk and some sprints followed, and after two more laps around the Stadium track the afternoon's work-out ended...
...easy to think with the crowd; and the thoughts of men, like electricity, choose the easiest way. Yet all the more, when men force themselves to think alone, they are like electricity which, meeting an obstruction, overleaps it with a speed that may be heard ten thousand miles...